Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Nicolas Delaunay engraving after Fragonard
The Happy Accident of the Swing, Nicolas Delaunay Engraving, roughly 20 x 16″ (51 x 42 cm); in the collection of the Art Institute Chicago This wonderfully lush and textural engraving by Nicolas Delaunay is a copy of a famous painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It was not uncommon for painters to have printmakers create copies…
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’s Mirror of Venus
The Mirror of Venus, Edward Burne-Jones Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, who went on to be a major figure in style known as Aestheticism, presents a tableau of female figures, some staring at their reflections in the mirror of a still pond, others…
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Eye Candy for today: Ivan Shishkin graphite drawing
Trees by the Stream, Ivan Shishkin Link is to the image page on The Athenaeum, direct link to the large image here. Original is in the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg. The drawing is in graphite. I don’t have the dimensions. Like many of the great landscape painters, 19th century Russian…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francesco Novelli ink and wash drawing
Diana and Her Hounds, Francesco Novelli Pen and black ink with brown wash; roughly 5 x 4″ (13 x 10 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. I don’t know much about Francesco Novelli, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but I find this drawing interesting for…
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Eye Candy for Today: Joaquim Vayreda’s Scarecrow
The Scarecrow, Joaquim Vayreda Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional D-Art de Catalunya. 19th century Spanish painter Joaquim Vayreda gives us a nicely evocative scene of farm fields in early Autumn.
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Eye Candy for Today: Levitan’s Golden Autumn
Golden Autumn (Zolotaya Osen), Isaac Levitan Link is to page with access to high-resolution image file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing the original, but the Tretyakov image seems a little over exposed to me, so I’m going with the Wikimedia version. A justifiably…