Category: Eye Candy for Today

View of Tiegem in winter, Valerius de Saedeleer; oil on canvas, roughly 39 x 45 inches (100 x 115 cm), liink is to Wikimedia Commons; image was sourced from past Christie’s auction, so presumably the original is in a ptivate collection. Belgian painter Valerius de Saedeleer, who was active in the late 19th and early…

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…