Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Edwin Church oil sketch
Drawing, in the New England woods, 1855-65; Frederic Edwin Church Oil on paperboard, roughly 13 x 9 inches ( 33 x 23 cm); in the Cooper Hewitt Collection of the Smithsonian Design Museum. Interestingly, the museum has posted two images of this work, the one above, top, which I’ll call the “cool” version, and the…
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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…