牧羊人的崇拜 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	牧羊人的崇拜
品名（英）	The Adoration of the Shepherds
入馆年号	1997年，1997.95
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	François Boucher【1703 至 1770】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1700 - 公元 1770
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	16 1/4 x 11 英寸 (41.3 x 27.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	布歇以优雅的神话和迷人的乡村风格场景而闻名，为他这样的历史画家创作的宗教画相对较少。他所做的那些通常是私人奉献的亲密规模。这些小画是洛可可成语的典型表达，其典型特征是轻盈、优雅的人物、对媒介的华丽处理以及对基于蔓藤花纹的构图的偏好。在这里，在牧羊人的崇拜这个质朴的主题中，人们回忆起佛兰芒绘画和乔瓦尼·贝内代托·卡斯蒂廖内的油画素描，但在鲍彻的手中，这个主题呈现出一种轻盈和细腻，将其与此类来源区分开来。虽然这幅素描的构图与 1750 年之前由路易十五国王的著名情妇蓬巴杜夫人委托创作的同一主题的祭坛画相似，但这幅素描很可能是在后来作为独立作品绘制的。在完成的祭坛画和这幅素描中，鲍彻都使用从天体开口辐射出来的瞬态金光来锚定他的作品。天上的光落在圣婴基督身上，崇拜的旁观者投下了充满活力的半透明阴影。Boucher巧妙地探索了光线和色彩的丰富性，特别是在不透明的奶油云层和圣母子肉体色调中令人惊讶的红色油漆中. Perrin Stein，2014年10月
介绍（英）	Known for graceful mythologies and charming scenes of rustic genre, Boucher produced relatively few religious paintings for a history painter of his standing. Those he did make were typically of an intimate scale intended for private devotion. These small paintings are quintessential expressions of the Rococo idiom, typified by lithe, elegant figures, a lush handling of the medium, and a preference for compositions based on the arabesque. Here, in the rustic subject of the Adoration of the Shepherds, Flemish painting and the oil sketches of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione are recalled, but in Boucher's hands the subject takes on a lightness and delicacy that distinguishes it from such sources. Although similar in composition to an altarpiece of the same subject commissioned just before 1750 by Madame de Pompadour, the famed mistress of King Louis XV, this sketch was likely painted at a later date as an independent work. In both the completed altarpiece and this sketch Boucher uses a transient golden light radiating out from the celestial opening to anchor his composition. The heavenly light falls upon the Christ child, and the adoring onlookers cast vibrant, translucent shadows. Boucher skillfully explores the richness of light and color especially apparent in the opaque, creamy clouds and the surprising dabs of red paint in the flesh tones of the Virgin and Child. Perrin Stein, October 2014