Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Bonvin Chrysanthemum
Flowering Chrysanthemum, Léon Bonvin Watercolor, gouache, pen and iron gall ink, roughly 10×8 in (24×19 cm). In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Click on “Explore Object” or “Download Image” for large version. Bonvin’s sensitive rendering of the plant is beautifully set off by his atmospheric suggestion of morning haze, through which we can just see…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Tea
Tea, James Tissot In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image for the high-resolution version. Tissot here copied and expanded on a portion of another of his own paintings, Bad News. The change in context from the narrative of the latter painting gives this one a very different…
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Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli idealized portrait
Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph), Sandro Botticelli Tempera on wood panel, 32×21 in (82×54 cm) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. There is also an article devoted to the painting on Wikipedia. This exquisite…
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Eye Candy for Today: Aegidius Sadeler rhino
Fable of the Rhinoceros and Elephants, Aegidius Sadeler Etching, roughly 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (96x112mm), 1608. In the Rijksmuseum. Today — I am informed in a tweet from the Rijksmusem — is World Rhino Day. In celebration they point to a selection of rhino images from their collection, from which I focused on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer’s waterfalls
Pistil Mawddach, North Wales; watercolor and gouache, Yale Center for British Art; The Waterfalls, Pistil Mawddach, North Wales, oil, Tate, Britain; Samuel Palmer Though both are striking, I find 19th century artist Samuel Palmer’s watercolor and gouache study of this dramatic landscape even more compelling than his finished oil. The watercolor is 17×21 inches (44x53cm),…