Category: Eye Candy for Today

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise by Camille Pissarro. One of my favorite landscapes by an under-appreciated master of Impressionism. The texture and brushwork are just beautiful. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” under the image and then the Download arrow for high-resolution image.

The Immaculate Conception, Giambattista Tiepolo. In the Prado, Madrid. Click on the diagonal enlarge arrow under the image, then again, to open high resolution image (3.6mb) in a new window.

, John Singer Sargent. In Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and then download arrow. This is one of Sargent’s “travel sketches”, painted for his own pleasure. This man could paint.

Venus Rising From the Sea — A Deception, Raphaelle Peale. Raphaelle Peale, son of pioneering American artist Charles Wilson Peale and America’s first great still life painter, serves up a trompe l’oeil of a woman behind a cloth — a tour de force drapery study and a comment on the repressive standards applied to figure…

, Georges Michel. In the National Gallery, London — use fullscreen and zoom at right of image. Wonderful clouds from a French artist who was two steps back in the lineage of Impressionism.