Category: Eye Candy for Today

Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau, Camille Corot In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and use zoom controls or download arrow.

Boer War, 1900 – 1901 – Last Summer Things Were Greener, John Byam Liston Shaw Image from the Athenaeum. Original is in the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. The painting, in the detailed style associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, depicts the artist’s sister mourning her cousin, who was killed in the Boer War in South Africa.…

Still life with Books, Jan Lievens. In the Rijksmuseum. Did someone say texture?

Giant Redwood Trees of California, Albert Bierstadt. On Google Art Project; click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Berkshire Museum (no image). Bierstadt dazzled east coast society with his large scale paintings of a largely untamed continent. Few natural wonders could match these magnificent giant plants. Giant Redwood Trees…

View from the Quai d’Orsay, Johan Barthold Jongkind. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” and use zoom or download arrow. What might appear, in its wonderful painterly immediacy, to have been painted by a contemporary plein air master, was in fact painted in the mid 1800’s. Jongkind, a Dutch painter who spent…

Oak Grove, Ivan Shishkin. On Wikipaintings. Large version here. Original is in the Kiev National Museum of Russian Art. See my previous Eye Candy post of a Shishkin forest scene (presumably in the same oak forest) and my post on Ivan Shishkin.