Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Wilmer Dewing silverpoint portrait
Portrait of a Woman, Thomas Wilmer Dewing In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download icons under the image. Original sheet is roughly 22 x 19 in. (57 x 48 cm). The portrait is drawn in silverpoint, the most prevalent of the variations of metalpoint drawing. The artist draws with a thin…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Logsdail’s St Martin in the Fields
St Martin in the Fields, William Logsdail Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Tate Britain. I love the atmosphere in this painting of London’s Trafalgar Square by Victorian painter William Logsdail — the wetness of the stone, the textures of fabrics, and the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henri Rousseau’s Carnival Evening
Carnival Evening, Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau Zoomable image on Google Art Project; high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. When I was younger, I had a poster of this painting on my apartment wall, and I still enjoy its presence here in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rousseau is often considered…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frank Dicksee’s The Two Crowns
The Two Crowns, Frank Dicksee Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate Britain. In a turn of the 20th century painting of a Medieval scene, the crown of a king is seen in a different light when he is struck with the…
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Eye Candy for Today: William York MacGregor’s The Vegetable Stall
The Vegetable Stall, William York MacGregor Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Galleries of Scotland. I just love this kind of in-situ still life. MacGregor’s earthy colors and wonderfully brushy, textural approach make this painting — one of the artist’s best…
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Eye Candy for Today: Karl Friedrich Schinkel pen lithograph
Das Schloss Prediama in Crein XII Stund: von Triest (The Castle of Predjama in Carniola, Twelve Hours from Trieste), Karl Friedrich Schinkel In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. This striking print by the German artist, active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is a pen…