Category: Eye Candy for Today

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…

The Battle of Tragalgar, John Christian Schetky Link is to Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art.   My apologies to those of you who have had difficulty accessing Lines and Colors in the last week or so, particularly in the last few days. The…

Still Life with Eggs, Georg Flegel Link is to an article on Viático de Vagamundo. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Unfortunately, not the best reproduction in either case, but the best I could find for such a wonderful painting by the 16th/17th century German still life master. Original is in the State Gallery in the Castle…