Category: Eye Candy for Today

The Spinner, William-Adolphe Bouguereau; larger version here Somehow, despite my fondness for nineteenth century academic art, I can’t get all goggle-eyed and worshipful of Bouguereau the way they do over at the Art Renewal Center. Neither do I jump on the bandwagon of reviling him as facile and shallow, or as an enemy of the…

The Water Garden, Childe Hassam Did somebody say “Summer”? In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link.

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.