Category: Eye Candy for Today

Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania, Jasper Francis Cropsey On Google Art Project, high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Toledo Museum of Art. Given the level of detail, Cropsey’s painting of the Susquehanna River Valley, and the great railroad viaduct that spanned the river in northeastern Pennsylvania, is smaller in scale that might…

The Sense of Sight, Annie Louisa Swynnerton (née Robinson) On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Swynnerton depicts an angel enraptured by the visual world, as no doubt was the artist.

Le repos au bord du ruisseau. Lisière de bois (Rest along the Stream. Edge of the Wood) Alfred Sisley Among the original core group of French Impressioinist painters, English born Alfred Sisley has long been a personal favorite of mine. There is something direct and to the point about his work that particularly appeals to…

Study of a Tree, Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren Watercolor over pencil, 124 x 200 in (316 x 512cm). On Google art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image. Though I’m not quite as taken with her work as I am with the paintings of her contemporary, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, I do admire Labille-Guiard’s skill with paint, and with chalk drawing. At…