Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Francis Hopkinson Smith watercolor of Venice
“Over a Balcony,” View of the Grand Canal, Venice; Francis Hopkinson Smith Watercolor; roughly 32 x 21 inches (80 x 53 cm); in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. On their page, click on “Explore Object” at the top of the image for a zoomable view, or use the “Download Image” link. This…
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Eye Candy for Today: Theodore Rousseau pen and wash drawing
Village and Church of Beurre, Franche-Comté, Théodore Rousseau Pen and brown ink, with brown wash and touches of green and red-brown watercolor, over graphite; roughly 7 x 10 inches (17 x 26 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version. 19th century landscape painter Théodore…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franz Xaver Winterhalter pencil portrait
Portrait of Baroness Gudin, née Margareth Louis Hay, Franz Xaver Winterhalter Graphite, roughly 15 x 11 (40 x 29 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this deceptively simple, sensitively realized pencil portrait, 19th century German painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter has given particular attention to nuances of value changes in the…
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Eye Candy for Today: David Cox – The Opening of the New London Bridge
The Opening of the New London Bridge, David Cox Watercolor, roughly 15 x 9 in. (38 x 24 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art. British landscape master David Cox, who I admire in particular for his watercolors,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johannes Franciscus Christ ink and wash drawing
View of the Bottom Gate at the Old Port at Nijmegen, Johannes Franciscus Christ Ink and wash over a chalk underdrawing, roughly 9 x 7 in (23 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. This early 19th century drawing of the port gate of the Dutch city of Nijmegen is a beautiful example…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ivan Shishkin’s Rye
Rye, Ivan Shishkin Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. In contrast to his scenes of thick forest groves, Russian landscape master Ivan Shishkin here stands his trees as sentinels above the expanse of a rye field. A dirt…