罗伯特·富尔顿（1765–1815） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	罗伯特·富尔顿（1765–1815）
品名（英）	Robert Fulton (1765–1815)
入馆年号	1989年，1989.329
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Jean Antoine Houdon【1741 至 1828】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1803 - 公元 1804
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	整体, incl. socle (approx. field measurement): 27 1/2 x 15 x 13 1/4 x 27 英寸 (68.6 x 38.1 x 33.7 厘米); 高 without socle: 21 1/2 英寸 (54.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅半身像描绘了法国肖像大师侯登（Houdon）雕刻的众多美国人中的最后一位，他早期对华盛顿、杰斐逊和富兰克林的印象已经嵌入了我们的民族意识中。富尔顿首先是画家，其次是发明家，他在访问巴黎时为胡登坐了下来，在他的轮船克莱蒙最终成功的哈德逊河航行前几年，他试图为他的潜艇发明争取资金，但徒劳无功。半身像似乎是由诗人和外交官乔尔·巴洛（Joel Barlow）委托的，他是居住在巴黎的胡登的密友。在这个看似独特的模型中，英俊的主题的活力和非正式的气息被他喇叭形大衣翻领的无拘无束所强调;后来，半身像的纽扣版本呼应了霍顿的巴洛肖像的更严肃的质量，富尔顿肖像最初与巴洛配对。这幅生动的形象与我们本已非常出色的Houdon革命前雕塑收藏相得益彰，也与艺术家帝国时代的欧洲人肖像不同，后者符合更严肃的新古典主义模式。它可以表达这位年迈的雕塑家对美国精神的看法，不受旧世界礼仪的束缚。
介绍（英）	This bust depicts one of the last of many Americans to be sculpted by Houdon, the French master portraitist whose earlier images of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin are embedded in our national consciousness. A painter first and an inventor second, Fulton sat for Houdon while visiting Paris in a fruitless attempt to enlist funding for his submarine invention several years before the ultimately successful Hudson River voyage of his steamship Clermont. The bust appears to have been commissioned by poet and diplomat Joel Barlow, a close friend of Houdon residing in Paris. In this apparently unique model, the handsome subject's air of vigor and informality is emphasized by the insouciance of his flaring overcoat lapels; later, buttoned-up versions of the bust echo the graver quality of Houdon's portrait of Barlow, with which the Fulton portrait originally was paired. A fitting coda to our already stellar collection of Houdon's pre-Revolutionary sculpture, this lively image also differs from the artist's Empire-era portraits of Europeans, which conform to a more severe Neoclassical mode. It may express the aging sculptor's view of the American spirit unfettered by Old World manners.