Category: Eye Candy for Today

An Old Bridge at Hendon, Middlesex by Frederick Waters Watts. For those who could use a little reminder of summer. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I’m happy to say that after several months of being relegated to the stacks, one of my favorite paintings is back on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Water Mill by Frits Thaulow. I don’t think anyone handles the reflections, translucency and surface motion of small streams better than Thaulow. Unfortunately, the museum’s page…

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?