Category: Eye Candy for Today

Late Afternoon, New York, Winter by Childe Hassam. A marvel of suggestion by a primier American Impressionist. In the Brooklyn Museum. Click “Download”, then pick your size. See my 2006 post on Childe Hassam.

Dame Alice Ellen Terry (Choosing), George Frederick Watts. On Wikimedia Commons, title page here. Original is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. A little Victorian morality play, choosing between the camellias, which are dramatically beautiful but don’t have a strong scent — representing worldly pursuits, and the violets, more subdued in appearance, but with a…

In the Conservatory, James Tissot. See my post on James Jacques Joseph Tissot.

The Customs, Antonio Mancini. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. John Singer Sargent is said to have called Antonio Mancini “the world’s greatest living artist”. Jean-Léon Gérôme called him “a phenomenon”. Who am I to argue?

‘Twixt Venus and Bacchus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema. In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Click “Explore Object” or Download.