马丁·范布伦总统 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	马丁·范布伦总统
品名（英）	President Martin Van Buren
入馆年号	1956年，56.517.4
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Mathew B. Brady【1823 至 1896】【美国人，出生于爱尔兰】
创作年份	公元 1855 - 公元 1858
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	48.3 x 39.7 厘米 (19 x 15 5/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	美国第八任总统马丁·范布伦（Martin Van Buren，1782-1862 年）是一位经验丰富的政治家，他自己的影响力是民主党的代名词。他曾担任司法部长和纽约州州长、美国参议员、驻英国大使、国务卿和安德鲁·杰克逊时期的副总统。虽然身材矮小，但范布伦是一位精明的政治中坚力量，媒体称他为"小魔术师"。然而，到了1850年代中期，范布伦已经失去了政治上的青睐，他在1840年和1844年失去了对党总统候选人提名的竞选，并在1848年失去了第三方"自由土壤"竞选第一任。尽管如此，范布伦还是合适的杰出美国人，布雷迪可以向他推广他蓬勃发展的纽约肖像工作室。这幅肖像掩盖了范布伦的小身材，并让人想起他以前作为美国总统的显赫地位，他是 1855 年仅有的四位总统之一。这幅超大的印刷品被称为"帝国"，这是布雷迪创造的一个术语，用于描绘肖像，在规模和野心上可以与石版画和中音相媲美。
介绍（英）	The eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was a seasoned statesman whose own clout was synonymous with the Democratic party's. He held office as attorney general and governor of New York, United States senator, and ambassador to England, secretary of state, and vice-president under Andrew Jackson. Although short in stature, Van Buren was a shrewd political stalwart whom the press dubbed "The Little Magician." By the mid-1850s, however, Van Buren had fallen out of political favor, having lost his bid for his party's presidential nomination in 1840 and 1844, and the third-party "Free Soilers" campaign for the first office in 1848. Nonetheless, Van Buren was just the right type of illustrious American on whom Brady could promote his burgeoning New York portrait studio. The portrait disguises Van Buren's small size and recalls his former prominence as an American president, one of only four living in 1855. The exceedingly large print was known as an "imperial," a term coined by Brady for a portrait that in scale and ambition would rival lithographs and mezzotints.