Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Gabriel Metsu portrait
Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants, Gabriel Metsu Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This splendid 17th century portrait by Metsu was for a long time known simply as “Portrait of a Woman”, but the Minneapolis Institute of Arts website…
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Van Gogh’s drawings
As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts showcasing some “Not the usual Van Gogh’s” (and here), we are often given the impression that an artist’s oeuvre is much smaller that is really is because art publishers and even museums tend to emphasize an artist’s “greatest hits” over and over, at the expense of exploring a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Louis Buvelot’s Yarra Flats
Yarra Flats, Louis Buvelot Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria, which also has a zoomable version. 19th century Australian artist Louis Buvelot was influential on the generation of Australian painters who followed, including those known as the “Australian Impressionists”,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Parc Monceau
The Parc Monceau, Claude Monet In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the Download or Enlarge links under the image on their page. This painting, one of several painted in an urban park in the heart of Paris, is one of my favorites from Monet’s period of painting in his signature style — what might…
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Cindy Procious
Cindy Procious is a Tennessee based painter who paints portrait, figurative and still life subjects in a refined style that speaks to her admiration for the 17th century Dutch masters. She often presents her still life subjects, in particular, in the kind of deep chiaroscuro favored for classic northern painting. She works in the kind…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Shotter Boys watercolor
Le Pont Royal, Paris; Thomas Shotter Boys Watercolor and ink over graphite. Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which also has both zoomable and downloadable files. 19th century British watercolorist Thomas Shotter Boys has given us a view…