Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Peder Mønsted winter landscape
Snowy Forest Road in Sunlight, Peder Mørk Mønsted The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can download a high-resolution image. The original is in a private collection. A beautiful evocation of winter to mark the Winter Solstice. I love how much green and red Monsted has worked into the painting.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Horace Vernet landscape
Departure for the Hunt in the Pontine Marshes, Horace Vernet Oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 60 inches ( 100 x 150 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Vernet was a French painter active in the early 19th century, and his subjects included battles and historic events, portraits and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Charles Gifford Dyer still life
Seventeenth-Century Interior, Charles Gifford Dyer Oil on canvas, roughly 37 x 28 inches (94 x 71 cm), in the collection of the Art Institute Chicago This is a nineteenth century American artist painting a still life in the manner of seventeenth century Dutch still life — and doing a bang up job of it.
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Eye Candy for Today: Nicolas Delaunay engraving after Fragonard
The Happy Accident of the Swing, Nicolas Delaunay Engraving, roughly 20 x 16″ (51 x 42 cm); in the collection of the Art Institute Chicago This wonderfully lush and textural engraving by Nicolas Delaunay is a copy of a famous painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It was not uncommon for painters to have printmakers create copies…
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Image trove from the Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, one of the largest art museums in the U.S., has redesigned its website, and in the process, placed online a trove of over 50,000 large scale images of works from the collection. They have done so under a “CC0” license, meaning public domain or “No Rights Reserved”, so you are…
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’s Mirror of Venus
The Mirror of Venus, Edward Burne-Jones Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, who went on to be a major figure in style known as Aestheticism, presents a tableau of female figures, some staring at their reflections in the mirror of a still pond, others…