野马的研究 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	野马的研究
品名（英）	Study of a Mustang
入馆年号	1929年，29.100.429
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Edgar Degas【1834 至 1917】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1850 - 公元 1920
创作地区
分类	雕塑青铜（Sculpture-Bronze）
尺寸	8-5/8 x 12-1/4 x 4-1/2 英寸 (21.9 x 31.1 x 11.4 厘米.)
介绍（中）	1917年德加去世后，在他的工作室里发现了150多件具象雕塑。大多数是由易碎的蜡、粘土和塑性塑料（一种蜡基和油基建模材料）制成的。许多情况已经恶化。只有少数保存在用石膏铸造的复制品中。除了蜡像《十四岁的小舞者》（华盛顿：NGA）外，这些雕塑在这位艺术家的一生中都没有公开展出过尽管德加不喜欢用更永久的材料复制他的雕塑，但他的继承人授权用青铜铸造复制品，以保存作品并将其作为成品出售。雕塑家、德加的老朋友保罗·阿尔伯特·巴塞洛梅准备了72尊雕像进行铸造，这一过程由著名的巴黎铸造厂a.-a.Hébrard et Cie执行。德加青铜器的质量受到严格控制，其版本受到限制。这一系列的72个人物只铸造了22个版本。该系列中的每一件青铜都被分配了一个从一到七十二的数字。前二十版被分配了一封a-T的信。在大多数情况下，这些数字和字母都刻在单个青铜器上该系列72件青铜器于1921年5月在巴黎展出前完成。A版由该系列的第一批和最好的演员组成，是为重要的印象派收藏家H.O.Havemeyer夫人保留的。后来，她获得了《十四岁小舞者》的第一个青铜铸件（字母为A，但没有编号），这在最初的系列中被省略了。1929年，Havemeyer女士将《十四岁的小舞者》和72版A德加青铜器中的70件遗赠给了大都会艺术博物馆。
介绍（英）	Upon Degas's death in 1917, more than 150 figurative sculptures were found in his studio. Most were made of fragile wax, clay, and plastiline (a wax- and oil-based modeling material). Many had deteriorated. Only a few were preserved in copies that had been cast from them in plaster. Except for the wax Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (Washington: NGA) none of these sculptures had been publicly exhibited during the artist’s lifetime. Although Degas had not favored reproducing his sculptures in more permanent materials, his heirs authorized that copies be cast in bronze in order to preserve the compositions and to sell them as finished works. Paul-Albert Bartholomé, a sculptor and Degas's longtime friend, prepared 72 of the figures for casting, a process executed by the distinguished Paris foundry A.-A. Hébrard et Cie. The quality of the Degas bronzes was tightly controlled and their edition was limited. Only twenty-two editions of the series of 72 figures were cast. Each bronze within the series was assigned a number from one to seventy-two. The first twenty editions were assigned a letter from A-T. In most cases these numbers and letters were incised on the individual bronzes. The series of 72 bronzes was completed before May 1921 when it was exhibited in Paris. Edition A, comprising the first and best casts of the series, was reserved for the important Impressionist collector Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer. She later acquired the first bronze cast of the Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (lettered A, but not numbered), which had been omitted from the initial series. In 1929 Mrs. Havemeyer bequeathed Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer and 70 of the 72 Edition A Degas bronzes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.