Category: Eye Candy for Today

Simplon Pass: The Tease, John Singer Sargent Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Watercolor over graphite sketch, with gouache and the use of wax resist; roughly 16 x 21 inches (40 x 53 cm).…

Forest of Fontainebleau, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Corot entered this painting in the Paris Salon of 1846, and it became the first officially recognized pure landscape in French painting — without historical or mythological subject…

Jungle Tales, James Jebusa Shannon In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the Download or Enlarge links under the image. American artist James Jebusa Shannon, who spent most of his career in England, here presents an intimate scene of his wife reading to their daughter and one of her friends. “Jungle Tales”…

Venus and Mars, Sandro Botticelli Link is to a high resolution downloadble file on Wikipedia, the original is in the National Gallery, London, which has a zoomable version of the image. Two of Botticelli’s paintings, La Primavera and The Birth of Venus, are among the most iconic and recognized in the history of art. Other…