苏珊·沃克·莫尔斯（缪斯） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	苏珊·沃克·莫尔斯（缪斯）
品名（英）	Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)
入馆年号	1945年，45.62.1
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Samuel F. B. Morse【1791 至 1872】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1833 - 公元 1837
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尺寸	73 3/4 x 57 5/8 英寸 (187.3 x 146.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	艺术家的长女苏珊·沃克·莫尔斯（1819–1885）的全身肖像画是在莫尔斯电报发明的关键时期（约1835–37年）绘制的。这幅画展示了这个大约17岁的女孩，她坐在那里，腿上放着一本素描本，手里拿着铅笔，抬起眼睛沉思。尽管传统上被描述为缪斯，但这个人物更可能是绘画或设计艺术的化身。莫尔斯充分利用了他在欧洲的训练，借鉴了鲁本斯和韦罗内斯的作品，这将是他作为艺术家生涯的一次雄心勃勃的告别。由于缺乏经济上的成功，他放弃了绘画，转而从事科学和发明。这幅画于1837年首次在美国国家设计院展出，赢得了热烈的赞誉。苏珊于1839年与爱德华·林德结婚，搬到了他在波多黎各的甘蔗种植园，经常回到纽约与父亲共度长时间的时光。苏珊六岁时，父亲就成了鳏夫。她对丈夫和种植园的生活越来越不满意了。林德于1882年去世；1885年，苏珊打算永久返回纽约，但不幸在海上失踪。
介绍（英）	The full-length portrait of Susan Walker Morse (1819–1885), the eldest daughter of the artist, was painted during the crucial years of the invention of Morse's telegraph (ca. 1835–37). The painting shows the girl at about the age of seventeen, sitting with a sketchbook in her lap and pencil in hand with her eyes raised in contemplation. Although traditionally described as a Muse, the figure is more likely a personification of the art of drawing or design. Morse drew on the full extent of his European training, taking from the works of Rubens and Veronese in what was to be an ambitious farewell to his career as an artist. Stymied by a lack of financial success, he abandoned painting for science and inventing. This painting was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1837, where it won enthusiastic praise. Susan married Edward Lind in 1839 and moved to his sugar plantation in Puerto Rico, returning often to New York to spend extended periods with her father, who had been left a widower when Susan was just six. She gradually grew less and less happy with her husband and plantation life. Lind died in 1882; in 1885, Susan set out to return to New York permanently but tragically was lost at sea.