Category: Eye Candy for Today

Still Life with Grapes and Peaches, Emelie Preyer, oil on canvas, roughly 7 x 9″ (17 x 23 cm) A wonderfully tactile still life from German painter Emelie Preyer, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I love the she has emphasized imperfections, with the inclusion of the fly (or perhaps…

Paolo Veronese: Adoration of the Magi and Adoration of the Shepherds. Two beautiful paintings by 16th century master Paolo Veronese, though the kings seem to get a lot more attention here than the shepherds (much as in life, I suppose). Veronese did several paintings of the adorations; these are both from the Basilica dei Santi…

Winter Landscape, Stepan Kolesnikoff, gouache on card, roughly 20 x 26 in (50 x 65 cm). Link is to a 2019 auction result on Christie’s (large image here). I assume the painting is currently in a private collection. Another beautiful snow scene in gouache by the Ukrainian/Rusian painter Stepan Kolesnikoff, who was active in the…

The Geographer, Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, roughly 18×20 inches(45 x 51 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staedel Museum, Germany. Twenty six years ago this month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC debuted a most remarkable exhibition of…

Birch Grove, by Isaac Levitan, oil on paper mounted to canvas, roughly 12 x 20 inches (30 x 50 cm). Link is to image page on WikiArt (click “View all Sizes” for access to large image); original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. This is a beautiful and widely recognized landscape painting by the brilliant…