Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Watteau trois crayon figure drawing
Seated Young Woman, Jean-Antoine Watteau Black, red and white chalk on buff paper. Roughly 10 x 7 inches (25 x 17 cm). In the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. Image can be zoomed or downloaded. French Baroque painter Jean-Antoine Watteau was a wonderful and prolific draftsman and master of the “trois crayon”…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dore illustration for Fables of La Fontaine
Shepherd Wolf, Gustave Doré Link is to WikiArt, from this page. 19th century illustrator and printmaker Guatave Doré is noted primarily for his dramatic illustrations for Dante’s Devine Comedy and Inferno, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Cervantes Don Quijote, as well as The Bible. Less well known are his illustrations for Shakespeare plays, other epic poems…
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Eye Candy for Today: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim portrait
Marriage Portrait of Charlotte de Rothschild, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. This beautiful portrait by 19th century German painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim is deliberately in the mold of Renaissaince portraits in many respects, but with a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer watercolor of cypress trees
The Cypresses at the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Samuel Palmer Original is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable file on their site. You can also find a zoomable version on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. You can see —…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leonardo’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci
Ginevra de’ Benci, Leonardo da Vinci The link is to the page for the painting on the NGA site, which has a zoomable version as well as offering a link to a downloadable files, though you need to sign up for a free account to download the highest resolution version. There is also a zoomable…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fortuny’s Print Collector
The Print Collector, Maria Fortuny Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. One of those wonderful 19th interior paintings that in addition to figures, also includes a series of still life subjects as well as a representation of other artworks.