Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Pensionante del Saraceni still life
Still Life with Fruit and Carafe, Pensionante del Saraceni In the National Gallery of Art, DC; you have to use the download link to see a larger image. (The largest version requires a free account to download.) Clearly observed and directly painted, this early 17th century still life has a particularly beautiful compositional flow. Your…
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Eye Candy for Today: John White Alexander’s Repose
Repose, John White Alexander In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom icons under the image for high-resolution version. This stunning painting by 19th century American artist John White Alexander — who focused on paintings of well-attired young women in luxurious settings — combines the fluid brushwork of fin-de-siécle…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fuseli’s Nightmare
The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781; The Nightmare, engraving after Fuseli by Thomas Burke; The Nightmare Henri Fuseli, 1791; The Nightmare, engraving after Fuseli by Thomas Halloway Images are from Wikimedia Commons; original of the first version is in the Detroit Institute of Arts This 18th century painting by English-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli has become one…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Martin’s The Bard
The Bard, John Martin 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 Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, UK, but their website is so poorly arranged I can’t even give you a link to the item. Though 19th century…
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Eye Candy for Today: George Inness landscape study
Landscape Study, George inness On Wikimedia Commons. As far as I can tell, the original is in a private collection. In this small but strikingly beautiful study (9×13 in; 23x33m), we get an uncharacteristic glimpse of Inness wielding the brush. The brief notations of the animals and buildings are remarkable for their naturalistic appearance when…