Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Cecilia Beaux portrait of Ernesta
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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carel Fabritius The Goldfinch
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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto drawing of Warwick Castle
Warwick Castle: The East Front from the Courtyard, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk; roughly 12 x 22 inches (32 x 57 cm). Link is to the J. Paul Getty Museum, which has the original in its collection. The Getty’s page has both a zoomable and downloadable…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Etienne Liotard’s Chocolate Girl
The Chocolate Girl, Jean-Etienne Liotard Pastel on parchment, roughly 20 x 32 inches (52 x 82 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden. This is the most famous of 18th century Swiss artist Jean-Etienne Liotard’s beautiful pastel portraits and genre…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s portrait of Maria Beck
Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck), Franz Xaver Winterhalter In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or enlarge links under their image. Winterhalter’s portrait makes nice use of variation in edges; compare the sharp edges of the cuffs and collar of the dress to the softness at the edges of the hands.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Léon Bonvin still life
Still Life on Kitchen Table with Celery, Parsley, Bowl, and Cruets; Léon Bonvin Watercolor over pen and ink and graphite; roughly 7×9 inches (17 x 22 cm). In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore which has both a downloadable and zoomable version of the image. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project, and…