Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow’s Winter
Winter, Frits Thaulow Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadble high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway. What better way to celebrate the Winter Solstice than with a super high-resolution image of a painting I haven’t see before by one of my…
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Eye Candy for Today: James Peale miniature portrait
Elizabeth Oliphant, James Peale Watercolor on ivory, roughly 3 x 2 inches (7 x 5.8 cm ). Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the late 18th, and through the mid 19th centuries, there was a demand for miniature portraits, both in the U.S. and in Europe. These…
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Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Dort Packet-Boat
Dortdrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed, J.M.W. Turner In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. There is also a zoomable image on Google Art Project, and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. This was painted in 1818, just a few…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Henry Hunt watercolor and gouache still life
Apple, Grapes and a Cob-Nut; William Henry Hunt Watercolor and gouache over graphite; roughly 5 x 7 inches (13 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image on their site. Early 19th century English artist William Henry Hunt painted…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent travel watercolor
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).…
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Eye Candy for today: Corot Fontainebleau landscape
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…