Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, oil on wood, roughly 18 x 16 in. (47 x 41 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. The link is to the page for this painting on the Met’s website. As I find is often the case with images posted…
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August Leu
August Wilhelm Leu was a 19th century German landscape painter who specialized in dramatic large scale scenes of the mountains in the Alps and Norway. In the detail crops in the images above, second from top and two at bottom, you can see some of the wonderful detail in these. Eat your heart out, Bob…
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Clark Institute image resource
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown MA was started as a museum to house their extensive art collection, and now includes a library and research center. The museum has recently made over 2,700 images of works from their collection available for download. They’re not exactly “high resolution” but large enough to browse and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Norfolk Landscape by Edward Seago
Norfolk Landscape by Edward Seago, oil on board, roughly 12 x 16 inches (30 x 41 cm). Link is to British art dealer Richard Green. (Click on the image on their site for a larger view.) As of this writing, the painting is for sale, so I don’t know how long this image may remain…
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Waterhouse’s other Lady of Shalott
‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 29 inches (100 x 74 cm). Link is to image on Britannica.com. The original is in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. John William Waterhouse, a late 19th century English painter often associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who preceded…