Category: Eye Candy for Today

Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, Helen Searle In the Smithsonian American Art Museum; there is a somewhat larger version of the image on Wikimedia Commons, but it’s unfortunately not well focused. Careful you don’t get stung reaching for a grape.

A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch, Henriette Browne Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. [Correction: the original is in the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, Costume, Play and Learn Gallery, which is either…

Andromeda fred by Perseus, Piero di Cosimo The link is to a version on Wikimedia Commons (note that the high-resolution file linked form that page is almost 30mb). There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. the original is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, but I can’t find an image on the official…

The Girl from Älvdalen, Anders Zorn Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Another fine example of Zorn’s beautifully economical and richly painterly style. I love the way the water is so briefly notated, and yet feels so naturalistic.

Mesa (Table), Jan Davidsz de Heem Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons, from which you can access the high-resolution file. Original is in the Prado, Madrid, but I don’t think they have an image on their website. The intricate surface of the decorative metal is of course the star here, but I also love…