黑豹和小熊 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	黑豹和小熊
品名（英）	Panther and Cubs
入馆年号	1992年，1992.372
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Henry Kirke Brown【1814 至 1886】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1847 - 公元 1855
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尺寸	9 7/8 x 18 5/8 x 7 3/4 英寸 (25.1 x 47.3 x 19.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	"黑豹和小熊"源自布朗的"印第安人和黑豹"（下落不明），其中肌肉发达的男性形象准备用棍棒击中咆哮的黑豹和她的幼崽。由于没有将土著人物包括在小雕像中，隐含的捕食者（无论是人类还是动物）的身份尚不清楚。在这部已知的第一枚美国野生动物青铜器中，重点转移到保护幼崽的普遍母性本能上。动物雕塑中常用的不确定结果的装置，让观众自己完成戏剧。对细节的关注，尤其是质地丰富的毛皮，以及对情感的强调，开创了美国雕塑自然主义的新时代。布朗很可能是与马萨诸塞州奇科皮的艾姆斯制造公司合作制作的这只小雕像——这是一家前军火铸造厂，于 1850 年代初在美国开创了美术青铜铸造。
介绍（英）	"Panther and Cubs" is derived from Brown’s "Indian and Panther" (whereabouts unknown) in which a muscular male figure is poised to strike a snarling panther and her cubs with a club. By not including the Indigenous figure in the statuette, the identity of the implied predator—whether human or animal—is unclear. In this first known American wildlife bronze, the emphasis shifts to the universal maternal instinct to protect one’s young. The device of the undetermined outcome, commonly employed in animal sculpture, allows viewers to complete the drama for themselves. The attention to detail, especially in the richly textured fur, and the emphasis on emotion ushered in a new era of naturalism in American sculpture. Brown likely produced this statuette in collaboration with the Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee, Massachusetts—a former munitions foundry that pioneered fine-art bronze casting in the United States in the early 1850s.