Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat, Willaim Holman Hunt; oil on canvas; roughly 34 x 55 inches (86 x 140cm). Link is to image file on Wikipedia, original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. From the Bible: book of Leviticus, which is where we get the general concept as we use the term today. For…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francois Bouçher chalk drawing
Male Nude, Francois Bouçher; red chalk over black chalk on paper; roughly 20 x 13 inches ( 50 x 33 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. There are both zoomable and downloadable imges on their site. 18th century French artist Francois Bouçher, who is more commonly noted for his Rococo…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eugen von Blaas genre painting
The Italian seamstress, Eugen von Blaas; oil on canvas; roughly 16 x 12 in. (50 x 32 cm). Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons from which there is link to a large image. The image was originally sourced from a Bonham’s past auction, so I assume the painting is now in a private collection.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth Esty Organ advertisement ink drawing
Advertisment for Esty Residence Pipe Organ, pen and ink illustration by Franklin Booth, as it appeared in the November, 1923 issue of Country Life magazine. I don’t know the dimaneions of the original art. Link is to the Organ Historical Society. Interesting to compare this illustration to another of his for the same company. Who…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Merritt Chase pastel interior
Hall at Shinnecock, William Merrit Chase, pastel on canvas, 32 x 41″ (82 x 104 cm); in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. The image on the page linked above is in a small slideshow, larger image here. In 1891 American painter William Merritt Chase moved to the Shinnecock hills on Long…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dante Gabriel Rossetti pencil portrait
Portrait of Mrs. William Morris, née Jane Burden, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; graphite on paper, roughly 13 x 11 inches (33 x 29 cm), in the colleciton of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. Though nominally the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti has…