Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Constable graphite drawing
View of Cat Hanger, John Constable Graphite on paper, roughly 8 x 14″ (20 x35 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Drawn on two sheets of a sketchbook, this scene is of a farm on an estate in West Sussex, England. Constable’s nuanced command of tones and delicate indications of clouds…
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J.C. Leyendecker cover illustration for American Weekly
Cover illustration for American Weekly, December 19, 1948; J.C. Leyendecker Link is to Heritage Auctions sold lots. Accessing the full high-res image requires a free account, but there is a somewhat smaller version on Tumblr here. At first I thought that this was Leyendecker’s take on the popular song, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”,…
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Peder Mønsted winter landscape
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.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Horace Vernet landscape
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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Charles Gifford Dyer still life
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.
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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…