Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Vogel von Vogelstein’s Young Lady with Drawing Utensils
Young Lady with Drawing Utensils, Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Though it has the deliberate composition and appearance of a Renaissance portrait, this painting by the German portraitist drew on all his 19th century…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout cityscape
View of Bamberg, from the Ludwigskanal, Samuel Prout Pencil on paper, roughly 10×16 inches (26x40cm); original is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum in NY. Samuel Prout, a British artist active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was known for his watercolors and graphics of architectural scenes. Here, in a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s Dovecot
The Festival of St Swithin (The Dovecot), William Holman Hunt Link is to a larger version on The Athenaeum, original is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The version on the Ashmolean site is likely more accurate, I’ve lightened the slightly larger version from the Athenaeum to match it in value. I usually like to have…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne
Portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Graphite pencil on paper, roughly 17×12 inches (43×29 cm). Original is in the Morgan Library and Museum. Here is another of Ingres’s wonderful pencil portraits, with his trademark combination of exacting portraiture, and loose, almost casual rendering of the figure. The Morgan Library’s page offers both a zoomable and…
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Eye Candy for Today: George Roth Landscape
View in the Bentheim Forest, George Andries Roth Link is to original in the Rijksmusem, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions (with free Rijksstudio account); additional downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. In this wonderful 19th century landscape, a shaft of late afternoon light slices through a break in a German forest, illuminating some objects,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Greuze’s Broken Vessel
The Broken Vessel (La Cruche cassée), Jean-Baptiste Greuze Link is to downloadble large file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Louvre. Though the actual meaning is open to interpretation, the general assumption is that the allegorical subject suggested by the gathered flower petals and broken vase is one of lost innocence and defloration. Greuze…