Category: Eye Candy for Today

Sunrise, George Inness In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the Download or Enlarge links under the image. Don’t take my limited detail crops above as your only view of the painting; go the Met’s site and view the image full screen. There are lots of paintings that shout at the viewer,…

Invocation, Frederic Leighton Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. Like the remarkable figure of Perseus in his interpretation of the mythological story of Perseus and Andromeda, Leighton here manages to render the figure as both solid and etherial. This is partly accomplished with solid draftsmanship, and partly with his superb…

Saint Justina of Padua, Bartolomeo Montagna (Bartolomeo Cincani) In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the “download or Enlarge links under the image on their site. Though this is technically a religious work, not a portrait, I think the beautifully drawn and delicately rendered face has the look of a real person,…

Les étangs de ville d’avray (The Ponds of the Village of Avray), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Link is to Wikimedia Commons; they sourced it from a Sotheby’s auction, so I don’t know the current location of the original — perhaps in a private collection. Corot gives us an idyllic depiction of the gentle beginnings of Spring,…