Category: Eye Candy for Today

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…

Merced River, Yosemite Valley, Albert Bierstadt. When looking at Bierstadt’s large canvasses, I always see multiple smaller compositions within the whole. I’m also constantly delighted at how painterly Bierstadt’s works can be when viewed close up. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link, then zoom or download arrow.

A View in Cologne, Jan van der Heyden (possibly with help on the figures by Adriaen van de Velde). The structure on top of the cathedral (unfinished at the time) is a crane. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. I haven’t seen the original…

Chrysanthemums, Claude Monet. Many who are fond of Monet’s Impressionist landscapes are unfamiliar with his still life paintings. A number of these were of floral subjects. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” under image, then use zoom controls or download arrow. Notice the colors in the table top.

The Interior of the Bakenesserkerk, Haarlem, Johannes Bosboom. In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to right of the image.

Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini. Another of Bellini’s strikingly individualistic faces for religious subjects, and the superb painting ability that caused Durer to write of Bellini after a visit to Venice: “He is very old, and still he is the best painter of them all.” See my post on Giovanni Bellini. In the Metropolitan Museum.…