Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat
Girl with the Red Hat, Johannes Vermeer, oil on panel roughly 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Not as iconic as Girl with a Pearl Earring, so perhaps easier to see freshly, Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat is likewise a “tronie”, a…
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A few paintings from 1889
Wikimedia Commons, an offshoot of Wikipedia, is an extensive repository of media files: images, audio, video and even 3D models, to which anyone with a free account can contribute. The material must be either freely licensed or in the public domain. You may have noticed I refer to it often when providing links to works…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen’s Still life with Brass Urn
Still life with Brass Urn, by Soren Emil Carlsen, oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 34 in. (76 x 86 cm). The image was sourced from a Christie’s auction in 2010, so I assume the original is now in a private collection. Another mind-bogglingly beautiful still life from the brilliant Danish painter Emil Carlsen, who…
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Eye Candy for Today: Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Study of a Woman’s Head, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, oil on wood, roughly 18 x 16 in. (47 x 41 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. The link is to the page for this painting on the Met’s website. As I find is often the case with images posted…
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August Leu
August Wilhelm Leu was a 19th century German landscape painter who specialized in dramatic large scale scenes of the mountains in the Alps and Norway. In the detail crops in the images above, second from top and two at bottom, you can see some of the wonderful detail in these. Eat your heart out, Bob…
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Clark Institute image resource
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown MA was started as a museum to house their extensive art collection, and now includes a library and research center. The museum has recently made over 2,700 images of works from their collection available for download. They’re not exactly “high resolution” but large enough to browse and…