Category: Eye Candy for Today

Self portrait with a Harp, Rose Adélaïde Ducreux In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download arrow under the image for larger version. Rose Adélaïde Ducreux, who studied with her father, painter Joseph Ducreux, here portrays herself with a harp and in a luxuriously finessed gown that dominates the work. I suspect that, like…

Flaming June, Frederic Leighton The link is to a file on Wikimedia Commons. (I think the image is over-saturated, and I’ve taken the liberty of correcting it somewhat in the images above.) The original is in the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, though the museum doesn’t appear to have their collection online.…

Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), Winslow Homer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikipedia, along with a page devoted to the painting. The original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has downloadable files. As much as Homer is noted for his watercolors…

Saudade (Longing), José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a very high resolution downloadable file (138MB) on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (no good images). The subject of a young woman reading a letter, with either…

Madame Moitessier, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, National Gallery of Art, DC Madame Moitessier, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The National Gallery, London When asked to paint Madame Moitessier, Ingres — who was at a later point in his career in which he was less inclined to take on portrait commissions — initially refused. On meeting her, however, he was struck…

Market Day in Constantinople, Alberto Pasini Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Berkshire Museum (no full image). Pasini was known for his Orientalist paintings of locations and subjects in the eastern Mediterranean. Here he renders not only the exotic architecture in the city…