Category: Eye Candy for Today
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s portrait of The Empress Eugénie
The Empress Eugénie, Franz Xaver Winterhalter In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download links below the image on their page. The painting’s finished feeling, when viewed from the proper distance, belies the painterly, almost casual and sketch-like handling when seen in detail.
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot pencil drawing
Young man in Front of a Great Oak, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Graphite on tan paper, highlighted with white gouache, roughly 11 x 16 inches (39 x 29 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Corot’s precise and economical…