Category: Eye Candy for Today

The Goldfish Bowl, Edward Perugini, oil on canvas. roughly 39 x 31 in. (100 x 79 cm). Link is to the Bonham’s auction page from 2010. Click on the image on the Bonham’s page for a larger version. Bonham’s at the time lists it as only “attributed to” Perugini, but all other references to it…

Girl with the Red Hat, Johannes Vermeer, oil on panel roughly 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Not as iconic as Girl with a Pearl Earring, so perhaps easier to see freshly, Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat is likewise a “tronie”, a…

Still life with Brass Urn, by Soren Emil Carlsen, oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 34 in. (76 x 86 cm). The image was sourced from a Christie’s auction in 2010, so I assume the original is now in a private collection. Another mind-bogglingly beautiful still life from the brilliant Danish painter Emil Carlsen, who…

Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, oil on wood, roughly 18 x 16 in. (47 x 41 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. The link is to the page for this painting on the Met’s website. As I find is often the case with images posted…

Norfolk Landscape by Edward Seago, oil on board, roughly 12 x 16 inches (30 x 41 cm). Link is to British art dealer Richard Green. (Click on the image on their site for a larger view.) As of this writing, the painting is for sale, so I don’t know how long this image may remain…

‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 29 inches (100 x 74 cm). Link is to image on Britannica.com. The original is in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. John William Waterhouse, a late 19th century English painter often associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who preceded…