Search results for: “chardin”
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Eye Candy for Today: Joseph Bail genre scene
Young kitchen boy playing with a cat, Joseph Bail; oil on canvas; roughly 43 x 28 inches (109 x 71 cm); I don’t know the location of the original, the link is to a gallery site, through which the painting evidently passed at one time, so my assumption would be that it’s in a private…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Bogaerts still life
Still life with a green strainer, Jan Bogaerts Link is to sold listing on Simonis & Buunk gallery, which has a zoomable version of the image. Early 20th century Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts has a marvelous touch for portraying the surface textures of his still life objects. At times his deftly handled light and the…
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The Frick Collection, NYC
I was in New York over the weekend and I took the opportunity to visit the Frick Collection, which I haven’t been to for a few years (it’s often hard for me to get past the Met and the Morgan Library to other museums when I’m in NYC). The Frick is based on the collection…
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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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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life with plums
Still life with plums, figs, bread, keg, jug and other containers, Luis Egidio Meléndez Link is to a downloadable high-resolution image on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museo del Prado. This is another entrancing and deceptively simple still life by the 18th century Spanish master. I have said that my favorite still life painter…
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Luis Meléndez
18th century painter Luis Egidio Meléndez was one of the greatest Spanish still life painters, and to my mind, one of the great still life painters of history, though he received little recognition in his own time. His mastery of texture, light and composition elevated his subjects — fruit, melons, fish, game and Chardin-like kitchen…