Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Fragonard’s Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe
The High Priest Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe, Jean-Honoré Fragonard Image on the Web Gallery of Art; original is in the Louvre. Uncharacteristic of the frivolity of the work for which he is best known, Fragonard has here tackled a history painting. The work was originally meant as a guide for a tapestry that…
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Fragonard’s drawing for The Sacrifice of Coresus
The Sacrifice of Coresus, Jean-Honoré Fragonard Brush and brown wash, over chalk, roughly 14 x 18 inches (35 x 46 cm). In the Morgan Library and Museum. Use Zoom tab or download link. Not only has Fragonard worked out his composition, dramatic lighting and value relationships in this beautifully gestural preparatory drawing, he’s captured the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Davidsz de Heem still life
Mesa (Table), Jan Davidsz de Heem Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons, from which you can access the high-resolution file. Original is in the Prado, Madrid, but I don’t think they have an image on their website. The intricate surface of the decorative metal is of course the star here, but I also love…
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William Hays
Though he also works in oil, Vermont artist William Hays found an initial diversion into reduction linocut prints to be so compelling that it is now the focus of his artistic endeavors. Reduction printing is a color printmaking technique in which a single block, in this case linoleum, is carved, printed in a color, and…
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Benjamin Constant
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was a French Orientalist painter active in the late 19th century. Though his work was popular and in demand during his time, he is not well known today. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is currently featuring an exhibition of work by Constant and his contemporaries: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism: From Spain…
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Henry John Yeend King
English Victorian painter Henry John Yeend King studied painting in London and in Paris, learning both traditional academic techniques and the new plein air methods that were coming into practice. Yeend King specialized in landscape and genre paintings of rustic scenes, often with young women going about their chores, gathering flowers, waiting for and riding…