Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: William McGregor Paxton’s House Maid
The House Maid, William McGregor Paxton; oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 25 inches (76 x 64 cm); in the Corcoran Collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. The museum’s page has both zoomable and downloadble high-resolution images. You can also access the high resolution image from this page on Wikimedia Commons. Exquisite.
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Antonietta Brandeis
Antonietta Brandeis (AKA Antonie Brandeisová) was an Austrian/Hungarian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She studied at the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, and is most recognized for her paintings of that extraordinary city.
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Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit Dou’s A Woman playing a Clavichord
A Woman playing a Clavichord, Gerrit Dou, oil on panel, roughly 15 x 12 inches (38 x 300 cm); image is from Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the collection of the Dulwich Picture Gallery. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project, but it’s quite dark, as is the one on…
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Jules Bastien-Lepage (revisited)
Jules Bastien-Lepage was a French painter active in the late 19th century. His depictions of rural life were in a style called naturalism, an offshoot of realism, an art movement led by Gustave Courbet (as opposed to the more general use of the term today). His paintings of field workers and village life came from…
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Edward Seago
At various points in my life, I’ve had the delightful experience of encountering an unfamiliar artist whose work made me say: “Wow! How could I have not known about this painter before?!” 20th century English painter Edward Seago was one of those artists. I came across his work about 20 years ago, and he has…
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Eye Candy for Today: Valerius de Saedeleer landscape
View of Tiegem in winter, Valerius de Saedeleer; oil on canvas, roughly 39 x 45 inches (100 x 115 cm), liink is to Wikimedia Commons; image was sourced from past Christie’s auction, so presumably the original is in a ptivate collection. Belgian painter Valerius de Saedeleer, who was active in the late 19th and early…