Category: Eye Candy for Today

Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa, George Inness This soft, moody landscape by Inness is given an almost Pre-Raphaelite feel by the shapes of the Italian pines. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link.

Portrait of Marie Fargues, Jean-Étienne Liotard In the Rijksmuseum. Use zoom controls at bottom, of create a free account and download images for “Personal Use”.

Still Life with Fish, Emil Carlsen In the National Gallery of Art, Washington; use “Zoom” control. Early in his career, the Danish-American painter spent six months in Paris, where he studied the still life paintings of Jean Siméon Chardin, apparently to great effect.

Rubens, His Wife Lelena Fourment, and Their Son Frans, Peter Paul Rubens This painting, showing the artist with his second wife and their son, is part affection, part pride and part advertisement for the artist’s prowess as a painter. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.

Still Life: Flowers and Fruit, Severin Roesen Somehow, Roesen, one of America’s premier 19th century still life painters, manages to make this arrangement look simultaneously lurid, bizarre and naturalistic. I love the handling of the plums and the little droplets of water scattered about. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and zoom…