吸血鬼 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	吸血鬼
品名（英）	The Vampire
入馆年号	1929年，29.107.108
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Charles Meryon【1821 至 1868】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1853
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	Plate: 6 5/8 x 5 1/16 英寸 (16.9 x 12.8 厘米) 页: 10 1/2 x 7 7/8 英寸 (26.7 x 20 厘米)
介绍（中）	Meryon饱受精神疾病的困扰，在精神病院度过了他短暂生命的最后几年。他许多版画的特点是黑暗、哥特式的男高音，这被解读为他动荡生活的症状。这张照片取自他的专辑《Eaux fortes sur Paris》，在不断扩张的法国首都的鸟瞰图上，展示了一个来自巴黎圣母院的怪诞滴水嘴兽。雕塑被一群深色的鸟包围，呈现出一种威胁性的、可怕的外观，尤其是在构图的右半部分占据主导地位。Meryon在后来的版画中加入了他自己创作的诗句，将这个人物描述为一个"贪得无厌的吸血鬼，永恒的欲望"，"在伟大的城市里觊觎它的食物"。这位艺术家在十年的时间里继续修改版画，在1868年英年早逝之前，共创作了十种版画。
介绍（英）	Meryon was plagued by mental illness and spent the last years of his brief life in an asylum. The dark, gothic tenor that characterizes many of his prints has been interpreted as symptomatic of his tumultuous life. This print, taken from his album Eaux-fortes sur Paris, shows a grotesque gargoyle from Notre-Dame Cathedral against an aerial view of the expanding French capital. Surrounded by a flock of darkly colored birds, the sculpture takes on a menacing, monstrous appearance, especially as it dominates the right half of the composition. Meryon added a verse of his own creation to this later state of the print, describing the figure as an "insatiable vampire, eternal lust" who "covets its food in the great city." The artist continued to revise the plate over the course of a decade, producing a total of ten states of the etching before his untimely death in 1868.