Category: Eye Candy for Today

Portrait of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth; Peter Lely In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The museum’s website has both zoomable and downloadable versions available. The largest available download version is truly high-resolution, but be aware that it is large in file size at 98mb. I haven’t had the pleasure of…

Hell (Right panel of tryptich, The Garden of Earthly Delights); Hieronymus Bosch Link is to downloadable file on Wikipedia, which also has a page devoted to the entire work. Original is in the Museo del Prado, but they don’t offer a high resolution version on their site. There is a high-resolution file of the entire…

Ernesta, Cecilia Beaux In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Use the download or zoom links below the image on their site. This beautiful and sensitive portrait by the extraordinary American painter Cecilia Beaux is of her niece, Ernesta Drinker. Ernesta was one of Beaux’s favorite subjects, and she painted her numerous…

The Goldfinch, Carel Fabritius The painting is part of the collection of The Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum site has a page from which you can zoom or download the image from icons on the left. There is also a downloadable version on Wikipedia, which has a page devoted to the painting. There…