Category: Eye Candy for Today

Snowy Forest Road in Sunlight, Peder Mørk Mønsted The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can download a high-resolution image. The original is in a private collection. A beautiful evocation of winter to mark the Winter Solstice. I love how much green and red Monsted has worked into the painting.…

Departure for the Hunt in the Pontine Marshes, Horace Vernet Oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 60 inches ( 100 x 150 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Vernet was a French painter active in the early 19th century, and his subjects included battles and historic events, portraits and…

Seventeenth-Century Interior, Charles Gifford Dyer Oil on canvas, roughly 37 x 28 inches (94 x 71 cm), in the collection of the Art Institute Chicago This is a nineteenth century American artist painting a still life in the manner of seventeenth century Dutch still life — and doing a bang up job of it.

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…