Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Springtime
Springtime, Claude Monet Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikipedia; original is in the Walters Art Museum. In this painting by Monet of his first wife and frequent model, Camille Doncieux, we can see the painter’s fascination with light and color. The foliage is gesturally indicated, with mere…
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Heinrich Hermanns
Heinrich Hermanns was a German painter and printmaker active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, and in addition to his training and the influence of other German painters, he took inspiration from the French Barbizon School and later the Impressionists. Hermanns was noted for his painterly…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Larsson ink and watercolor
The Veranda. From A Home (26 watercolours), Carl Larsson Ink and watercolor, roughly 13 x 17 inches (32 x 43 cm); in the collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (zoomable file); high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. This delightful pen and watercolor is part of a series of similar pieces that were intended to be…
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Treasure trove of high-res images from Nationalmuseum Stockholm
In a gesture to make up for the inaccessibility of much of the museum’s collections during a major renovation to the building, the Nationalmuseum Stockholm has just released 3000 high resolution public domain art images from its collection to Wikimedia Commons. There is an article on the museum’s website here. The images are arranged on…
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Emilie Preyer
Liker her father, Johann Wilhelm Preyer, Emilie Preyer was a noted 19th century German still life artist who devoted much of her career to painting carefully composed arrangements of fruits. While Preyer senior was an excellent painter, I think Emilie outdid him with her more visceral portrayal of texture and sensitivity to the subtle effects…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marie-Denise Villers portrait
Young Woman Drawing, Marie-Denise Villers In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I first encountered this painting, it was hanging in a gallery at the Met in such a way that those entering the gallery were immediately confronted with it, and couldn’t help but be struck by its presence. The painting is…