Category: Eye Candy for Today
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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.
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Eye Candy for Today: J.C. Schotel chalk drawing
Seated Woman Watching a Cradle, J. C. (Johannes Christianus) Schotel Black chalk on paper, roughly 11 x 10 inches (27 x 25 cm); original is in the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. There is a soft delicate feeling in both the rendering and quality of light in this drawing by the 19th century Dutch artist,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Clausell’s Burgeoning Springs in Autumn
Burgeoning Springs in Autumn, Joaquin Clausell Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museo Nacional de Arte. Joaquin Clausell was a Mexican artist who lived and worked in Paris during the time the French Impressionists were active. In this early Autumn scene, he shows…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s Breakfast in the Loggia
Breakfast in the Loggia, John Singer Sargent Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project. The original is in the Freer/Sackler Gallery. Though the image linked from the latter page in not high resolution, there is a nicely large image linked from this post on the Smithsonian’s Bento blog (above the image, “6301 x…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Hamilton Mortimer pen drawing
Reclining Female Figure in an Italian Landscape, John Hamilton Mortimer Pen and black ink on cream paper; roughly 9 x 12 inches (22 x 32 cm). Link is to original in the Yale Center For British Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions on the website. There is also a zoomable version on the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror; Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino Oil on curved wooden panel, roughly 9 inches (24 cm) in diameter (without frame). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, which also has both zoomable and…