Category: Eye Candy for Today

In Realms of Fancy, John William Godward; oil on canvas; roughly 15 inches in diameter ( 39 cm); link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. Victorian painter John William Godward — known for his portrayals of languid women in repose wearing flowing, often diaphanous attire — gives us another refined example…

Three of Czech artist and designer Alphonse Mucha’s images depicting winter. Reproductions of Mucha’s work on the web are so erratic and miscolored, one of the few places I trust is the Mucha Foundation, which I’ve linked to for the first two images. I can’t find the other, except for stores selling reproductions. Happy Winter…

Still life with cherries and stoneware can, Jan Bogaerts; oil on canvas; roughly 14 x 18 inches (35 x 46 cm). Link is to sold listing on Simonis & Buunk gallery, which has a zoomable version of the image. Large image here. Early 20th century Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts elevates his simple, commonplace still life…

View of Ischl, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, roughly 18 x 22 inches (45 x 57 cm), oil on wod panel; in the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. This landscape by the early 19th century Austrian painter is a view of a mountain village in 1838. The museum’s site has both a zoomable…

Gossip, John William Waterhouse; oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 36 inches (72 x 93 cm). Link is to image page on Wikipedia; image is via a previous Christie’s auction; the painting is now in a private collection. English post-Pre-Raphaelite (if that makes any sense) John William Waterhouse — whose usual metier was dramatic mythological…