Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Adrianus Eversen cityscape
A cityscape by Adrianus Eversen. The only examples I’ve found of this image are on Pinterest, so I don’t know the title, size or present location of the original. I found this copy of the image from this poster. However, I like it a lot, so I felt it worth posting. I don’t care if…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ludwig Richter’s Genoveva
Genoveva, Ludwig Richter, watercolor on paper, roughly 12 x 7 in (31 x 18 cm); in the collectin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of th elarge image. This painting by 19th century German painter and printmaker Adrian Ludwig Richter depicts the legend of Genoveva, a woman…
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Élisabeth Sonrel
Élisabeth Sonrel was a French painter and illustrator who was active from the late 19th century to the mid-20th. She worked in both Art Nouveau poster style and in a more naturalistic Victorian style of painting.
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Eye Candy for Today: Richard Emile Miller’s Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea, Richard Emile Miller; oil on canvas; roughly 39 x 32 in (99 x 81 cm). This 1910 painting by American Impressionist Richard Emile Miller is in Newfields, part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The museum has a nicely large image of the painting (4596 x 5636 pixels, over 15mb) that can be…
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Eye Candy for Today: Maxfield Parrish landscape
Autumn Brook, Maxfield Parrish, oil on board, roughly 23 x 18 in (60 x 46 cm). Link is to past auction on Christies; large image here. Another beautifully realized imaginary landscape by the great American painter and illustrator, Maxfield Parrish.
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Mme Lethiere
Madame Guillaume Guillon Lethière, née Marie-Joseph-Honorée Vanzenne, and her son Lucien Lethière, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; graphite on paper; roughly 9 x 7″ (24 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. I’m a great admirer of Ingres’ sensitive pencil portrait drawings. This one is a bit unusual, more finished…