Category: Eye Candy for Today
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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…
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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…