Category: Eye Candy for Today

Portrait of the Countess Mathieu de Noailles (Anna Elisabeth de Brancovan), Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta Link is to page with high resolution image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, brings together the traditions of Spanish…

Frieda Schiff, Anders Zorn In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given the relatively weak greens in the curtain and background, I suppose it’s possible this was painted with Zorn’s famously eponymous palette. The “Zorn Palette”, with which the Swedish artist is presumed to have painted many (though certainly not all) of his…

Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli Tempera on panel, 60 x 19 inches (152 x 49 cm), in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. This beautifully realized late Gothic work (painted in 1480) is as much decorative object as it is representational image. I love how stylized it is, from the intricately rendered strands of hair to the…

Silvered Brook, John Fabian Carlson Link is to file page on Wikimedia Commons; I don’t know the status of the original. Swedish-American painter John Fabian Carlson was noted for his scenes of winter woods. I love the way he finds so much variation of color in his tree trunks, while maintaining their coherence as an…