Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt portrait etching
Portrait of Abraham Francen, Apothecary; Rembrandt Harmenz. van Rijn Etching and drypoint; roughly 6 x 8 inches (15 x 20 cm); In the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Rembrandt was an absolute master of the medium of etching and drypoint — in my opinion, the greatest in the history of art. He is most noted for…
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Eye Candy for Today: Veronese double portrait
Portrait of Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and her Daughter Deidamia, Paolo Veronese Link is to a zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Walters Art Museum, which also has a zoomable and downloadable version, but not as high resolution. This full length…
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Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Juliet
Juliet, John William Waterhouse The link is to Wikimedia Commons. This painting was sold at auction in 2014, and is now in a private collection. Fortunately, we at least have a reasonably good image of the painting. Waterhouse is frequently mentioned with the Pre-Raphaelites, with whom he associated and by whom he was certainly influenced;…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alexander Cozens ink and wash landscape drawing
Landscape with Ruined Temple, Alexander Cozens Brown ink and wash over graphite; roughly 12 x 16 inches (32 x 40 cm); in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Use the Zoom or Download links under the image on their site. Also available as a a zoomable image on Google Art Project and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of Maria Mancini, Jacob Voet
Portrait of Maria Mancini, Duchess of Bouillon, Jacob Ferdinand Voet In the Rijksmuseum; English language page for the work here. There is a zoom icon under the image. The download link requires a free Rijksstudio account (worth signing up for to my mind). There is also a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Apparently, cautious historians…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen Still life with roses and mandolin
Still life with roses and mandolin, Emil Carlsen Another beautiful still life by turn of the century Danish-American master Emil Carlsen. This is from the Emil Carlsen Archives, larger image here. The Emil Carlsen Archives is a terrific resource, but I haven’t figured out their thinking in terms of image display. If you click on…