Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Henri Harpignies’ View of Moulins
A View of Moulins, Henri-Joseph Harpignies In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom icons under the image on their site. At once straightforward and poetic, this view of a town in central France by the Barbizon painter is a beautiful example of the evocative power of watercolor. Harpignies combines solid draftsmanship,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre in Winter
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image on their site. This is part of a remarkable series of views of two of the grand boulevards of Paris, painted from a hotel room over the period of three months…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Cole’s Architect’s Dream
Architect’s Dream, Thomas Cole Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, which also has an interactive feature on the work. This fantastical combination of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Gothic architectural styles — in the midst of which we find…
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Eye Candy for Today: Chardin’s Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougéres, Pots, and Cruets on a Table
Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougéres, Pots, and Cruets on a Table, Jean-Siméon Chardin The original is in the collection of the Getty Museum, which has both a zoomable image, and a large (21MB) downloadable file available on their website. There is also a zoomable file on Google Art Project, and a downloadable version of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marcus Larson’s Waterfall in Småland
Waterfall in Småland, Marcus Larson Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; Original is in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. Swedish landscape painter Marcus Larson — who was at one time a student of the German painter Andreas Achenbach — gives us a wonderfully dramatic landscape in the Romantic tradition,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frans Snyders’ Still Life with Small Game and Fruit
Still Life with Small Game and Fruit, Frans Snyders In the Rijksmuseum. It’t interesting to compare this painting with a similar subject by Snyders in the National Gallery of Art, DC: Still Life with Grapes and Game.