Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eugen Bracht
During his career, German landscape painter Eugen Bracht traversed the styles of Romanticism, Symbolism and Impressionism. Active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Bracht was known primarily for his intensely moody coastal landscapes — in particular one titled The Shore of Oblivion (images above, top, with two detail crops) that was considered a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adelaide Palmer still life
Still Life with Oranges, Adelaide Palmer, oil on canvas, 16 x 24″ (40 x 60 cm). Link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know the location of the original. I can’t find very many images or much information on Adelaide Palmer, a painter from New Hampshire who was active in the late…
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ Woman on a Sofa
Woman on a Sofa, thined oil paint with touches of pastel over graphite, roughly 19 x 17″ (49 x 43 cm). Link is to image on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, which has both zoomable and downloadable images. The Met’s page for the piece indicates that it was not a preliminary work for another…
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Arvid Mauritz Lindström
Arvid Mauritz Lindström was a Swedish landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied in Stockholm, Munich and Paris and lived in England for a number of years. His landscapes are richly textural and atmospherically evocative of time and place.
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Eye Candy for Today: still life from the Roman School
Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge, Roman School, I have seen this beautiful still life at times attributed to Caravaggio (Michelangelo Marisi), or to a follower of his. Sotheby’s made no such direct claim when the painting passed through their auction house in 2013, referring to it instead as attributed to an unnamed…
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Eye Candy for Today: Max Klinger’s At the Gate
At the Gate (Am Thor), Max Klinger; etching and engraving; roughy 18 x 12″ (45 x 31 cm). Link is to the impression the collection of the National Gallery, DC, whih has both a downloadable and zoomable version of the image (and no longer requires an account to download high-res images). There is also a…