Category: Eye Candy for Today

The Garden of the Hesperides, Frederic Leighton, large version here. Original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. See my post on Frederic Lord Leighton.

Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. A stunning self portrait by one of my favorite underrated painters. Vigée Le Brun had an uncanny ability to make the fashionably pale skin of her female portrait subjects, herself included, almost luminescent. This is apparently a copy she made of an earlier version…

Ice Floes, Claude Monet. A marvel of atmosphere and suggestion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen and Zoom or download.

Mariana, by Sir John Everett Millais. In the Tate, Britain. Large version on the Google Art Project. Click in image area at lower right for zoom control.

Woodland Stream, Edward Willis Redfield. Redfield, a Pennsylvania Impressionist devoted to painting winter scenes in particular, painted these canvasses with huge, thick gobs of paint, piled on like… well, like snow. From this Russian blog whose name Google Translate makes out as “Postcards with Reproductions”.

Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting, Pieter de Hooch. I love the subtle play of light in the areas outside the main focus. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today is Pieter de Hooch’s birthday. I took the suggestion from the Met’s mention of that fact, and this painting, on Twitter. See my previous post…