Category: Pastel, Conté & Chalk
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Eye Candy for Today: Francois Bouçher chalk drawing
Male Nude, Francois Bouçher; red chalk over black chalk on paper; roughly 20 x 13 inches ( 50 x 33 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. There are both zoomable and downloadable imges on their site. 18th century French artist Francois Bouçher, who is more commonly noted for his Rococo…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Merritt Chase pastel interior
Hall at Shinnecock, William Merrit Chase, pastel on canvas, 32 x 41″ (82 x 104 cm); in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. The image on the page linked above is in a small slideshow, larger image here. In 1891 American painter William Merritt Chase moved to the Shinnecock hills on Long…
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Eye Candy for Today: Raphael figure studies
Nude Studies, Raphael, red chalk and metalpoint, roughy 16 x 11 in. (40 x 28 cm); link is to zoomable images on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. original is in the Albertina, Vienna. Raphael is considered to be one of the greatest draftsmen in history, and this relatively well known drawing of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape, Frits Thaulow, pastel and watercolor on canvas, roughly 22×36″ (55×92 cm). Link is to past auction on Christie’s (large image here), I would assume present location is a private collection. No one painted the surface character of small streams, winter or otherwise, like 19th century Norwegian Painter Frits Thaulow.
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John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal at the Morgan Library
John Singer Sargent is known for his bravura society portraits in oil, as well as his masterful watercolors. The latter were painted largely for his own pleasure as he traveled. The former, which were his stock in trade, came to weary him late in his career, and at one point he simply stopped doing formal…
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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer was a French pastellist, painter, ceramicist and designer whose influences and stylistic explorations included Art Nouveau, Impressionism, Symbolism, Islamic art, the Pre-Raphaelites and painting of the Italian Renaissance. In his pastels, Lévy-Dhurmer takes advantage of the soft edges and atmospheric diffusion of color that medium enables to give his images an etherial quality…