Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Ophelia, Stephenson mezzotint after Millais
Ophelia, James Stephenson, after John Everett Millais In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mezzotint, etching and Stipple, roughly 21 x 34 inches (53 x 86 cm). In a kind of artistic collaboration that was not uncommon at the time, highly skilled etcher and engraver James Stephenson has interpreted as a print what is perhaps the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Wapping
Wapping on Thames, James McNeill Whistler In the national Gallery of Art, DC. The name refers to a rough and tumble dock area of the Thames River in London, where Whistler lived and worked for a time, though I think the location is actually a nearby inn rather than the artist’s studio. In a marked…
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Eye Candy for Today: Théodore Chassériau pencil portrait
Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Cloak and Bonnet, Théodore Chassériau In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; graphite on wove paper; approximately 18 x 15 in. (46 x 39 cm). Chassériau has given us a beautifully sensitive pencil portrait. The commentary on the museum’s website suggests that Chassériau shows more interest in the subject’s…
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Eye Candy for Today: Louis Apol winter landscape
Een januari-avond in het Haagse bos, Louis Apol In the Rijksmuseum. I think the title translates roughly as “A January evening in the Hague forest”. In addition to the muted colors and soft edged value transitions in which Apol achieves his almost tonalist atmosphere, I particularly love his textural application of paint.
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Eye Candy for today: John Brett watercolor of the Amalfi Coast
Near Sorrento, John Brett Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK. I got to see the sea and curve of the land from the cliffs of Sorrento when I visited the Amalfi Coast some years ago,…
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Eye Candy for Today: unfinished Paul Sandby oil sketch
An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury; Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Here Paul Sandby, primarily known as a watercolorist, has started a landscape sketch in oil on paper. He’s laid in…