胡子长老的头 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	胡子长老的头
品名（英）	Head of a Bearded Elder
入馆年号	2003年，2003.25
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Augustin Pajou【1730 至 1809】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1768
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	without socle, confirmed: 14 1/4 × 12 1/8 × 9 1/2 英寸 (36.2 × 30.8 × 24.1 厘米) with socle, confirmed: 21 1/2 × 12 1/8 × 9 1/2 英寸, 43.1 磅 (54.6 × 30.8 × 24.1 厘米, 19.6 kg)
介绍（中）	这位头发蓬乱的长者的确切含义还有待确定。关于他的身份的建议从亚里士多德到摩西，再到一位退休的拳击手。这部作品符合法国学术传统，即为头部建模以表达各种激情，但这个好斗的角色能代表什么呢？也许愤怒几乎无法控制，但斗篷意味着什么？古代的大理石最像是传达愤怒和轻蔑的头部，代表了犬儒学派的哲学家，但他们不戴斗篷。最后，也许主要的主题是模特本人，毫无疑问是一个意大利人；在意大利学习期间和之后（1752年至1756年），帕茹绘制并模仿了类似的类型，年老但精力充沛，多毛而粗糙。在这些练习中，我们的头脑是最令人着迷的，它巧妙地对粘土进行不对称调整。直到去年在巴黎拍卖，它才被记录下来，博物馆1998年"奥古斯丁·帕茹"展览的作者们完全不知道它，但它将出现在明年的"玩火：1740年至1840年的欧洲兵马俑模型"中
介绍（英）	The precise meaning of this bristling elder remains to be determined. Suggestions for his identity have ranged from Aristotle to Moses to a retired pugilist. The work fits within the French academic tradition of modeling heads to express various passions, but which could this belligerent character personify? Barely controlled rage, perhaps, but what does the mantle connote? The ancient marbles that are most like the head in conveying crossness and contempt represent philosophers of the Cynic school, but they do not wear mantles. In the end perhaps the main subject is the model himself, no doubt an Italian; during and after his study years in Italy (1752-56), Pajou drew and modeled similar types, aged but vigorous, hirsute and ornery. Our head, carried out with canny asymmetrical adjust- ments of the clay, is the most mesmeriz- ing of these exercises. Unrecorded until it was auctioned last year in Paris, it was totally unknown to the authors of the Museum's 1998 "Augustin Pajou" exhibition but will figure in next year's "Playing with Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740 to 1840."