Category: Eye Candy for Today

A Venetian canal with gondolas, Santa Maria Della Salute beyond, Martín Rico y Ortega; oil on canvas, roughly 17 x 28 in. (43 x 70 cm). Link is to a previous auction on Christie’s (large image here). I don’t know the currnet location of the original. One of many beautiful images of Venice by 19th…

Bridge in the garden of Versailles, Jan Bogaerts, oil on canvas, roughly 16 x 24 inches (40 x 60 cm). Link is to previous sale page on Simonis & Buunk Fine Art Dealers. (Click on the image on their page for a larger view.) A beautifully idyllic landscape by Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts. Bogaerts, who…

The Blue Mandarin Coat (The Blue Kimono), Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, oil on canvas, roughly 43 x37 in (109 x 94 cm); link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, original is in the High Museum, which also has a zoomable version. There is a somewhat smaller downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons.

Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerrit (AKA Gerard) van Honthorst; link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. I love this kind of nativity scene, in which the painter has represented the infant as the source of light. Special effects! Van Honthorst was noted for his paintings featuring lighting effects…

Joseph the Carpenter, Georges de La Tour; oil on canvas; roughly 54 x 40 in (137 x 101 cm) Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is listed as being in the Louvre (though I can’t find it in a search of the Louvre’s online database). 17th century French painter Georges de La…