Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: John William North’s Spring
Spring, John William North Watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 11×17″ (29x43cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The delicate value contrasts and stippled tones of North’s watercolor give a wonderful sense of those early spring days in which both the atmosphere and the land seem ripe with the promise of future…
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Eye Candy for Today: David Cox pencil drawing
Llanfair Church, North Wales for A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours, David Cox Graphite and red chalk, roughly 6×16 inches (14x40cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which also has a downloadable file. Victorian…
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Eye Candy for Today: Joaquim Vayreda’s Beginning of Spring
The Beginning of Spring, Joaquim Vayreda Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya. A wonderful painterly evocation of the cusp of Spring by Spanish painter Joaquim Vayreda, who painted in the Catalan region in Spain in the late 19th…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edward Lear graphite drawing
Parham, October.13.1834, Edward Lear Graphite and white gouache on toned paper, roughly 10×7 inches (26×17 cm). Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which also has zoomable and downloadable versions. Edward Lear, known these days more for his…
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Eye Candy for Today: David Roberts’ Edinburgh
Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, David Roberts The link is to a zoomable version on The Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia. Mid-19th century painter David Roberts was known primarily for his views of exotic locations and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Isaby crayon portrait
Lady of the Court of Napoléon I, Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Isabey In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, roughly 10×7 in (25×18 cm). Though graphite pencils largely took the place of chalk and crayon in the late 19th century, this beautiful portrait drawing — done at the turn of the 19th century and attributed to court…