Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Cecilia Beaux portrait
Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), by Cecilia Beaux On Google Art Project. Use zoom at lower right. From the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Just the colors in the suit are amazing! For more, see my previous post about Cecilia Beaux.
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Valentin Serov
Though also an accomplished landscape painter, Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was known as a portraitist, and was undoubtedly one of the best of the 19th century (which is saying something) and perhaps the best portrait painter in Russian art. Originally from St. Petersberg, a Russian cultural center, Serov was the son of parents who were both…
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Eye Candy for Today: St Jerome in Rocky Landscape
Saint Jerome in a Rocky Landscape, attributed to the workshop of Joachim Patinir. Around 1515-1524. National Gallery, UK. Use full screen arrows and zoom control to right of image.
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Pissarro’s views of the Boulevard Montmartre
After painting in the French countryside for several years in the late 1800’s, French Impressionist Camille Pissarro took up residence at the Grande Hotel de Russie in the Montmartre section of Paris. Durning his three month stay there from February through April, he produced a number of canvasses of views of the grand boulevards visible…
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Eye Candy for Today: Floris van Dijck still life
Still Life with Cheeses, Floris van Dijck (82x111cm, 1615-1620). Just the tablecloth is amazing. From the Rijksmusum. Click on “Extra large view” under the image.
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Gilbert Stuart, not just presidents
Today is the Fourth of July, “Independence Day” here in the U.S., a holiday on which we celebrate not having to pay undue deference to a little old lady who wears funny hats. Amid carrying on the traditions of beer and barbecues handed down by our nation’s founding fathers, there is sometimes talk of the…