Category: Eye Candy for Today

Summer Idyll (Sommeridylle), Walter Moras, oil on canvas, roughly 31 x 47 inches (80 x 120 cm) Link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons that offers a large file; I don’t know the location of the original. German landscape painter Walter Moras (active n the late 19th and early 20th centuries) gives us a…

Still Life with Oranges, Adelaide Palmer, oil on canvas, 16 x 24″ (40 x 60 cm). Link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know the location of the original. I can’t find very many images or much information on Adelaide Palmer, a painter from New Hampshire who was active in the late…

Woman on a Sofa, thined oil paint with touches of pastel over graphite, roughly 19 x 17″ (49 x 43 cm). Link is to image on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, which has both zoomable and downloadable images. The Met’s page for the piece indicates that it was not a preliminary work for another…

Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge, Roman School, I have seen this beautiful still life at times attributed to Caravaggio (Michelangelo Marisi), or to a follower of his. Sotheby’s made no such direct claim when the painting passed through their auction house in 2013, referring to it instead as attributed to an unnamed…