一位军官和他的妻子的肖像研究 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	一位军官和他的妻子的肖像研究
品名（英）	Study for a Portrait of an Officer and His Wife
入馆年号	2004年，2004.501
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Arthur Devis【1712 至 1787】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1751 - 公元 1763
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	页: 18 x 11 5/8 英寸 (45.7 x 29.5 厘米), irreg.
介绍（中）	德维斯是"谈话作品"的主要画家——描绘18世纪中叶活跃在英国的两个或两个以上人物的类似于genreli的小型肖像画。这项研究是在他如日中天的时候进行的，尽管玩偶般的人物展示了他对被称为"人偶"的服装人体模型的持续依赖，但他们也揭示了他逐渐采用更自然的姿势和景观设置。在这里，一名军官和他的妻子倚在花园的栏杆上。她们对户外活动的热爱表现在女士手中刚刚摘下的花朵和她丈夫的骑马服上，衣服上有农作物、马刺和时尚的礼服 Devis的画作很少能幸存下来，但这幅作品表明，艺术家可能在绘画之前就已经准备好了对其保姆的详细研究。这些雕像高十七英寸半，与一幅相关的油画肖像（约1756年至1758年；位置不明）中的雕像完全相同，这幅肖像曾属于里彭侯爵。
介绍（英）	Devis was the leading painter of "conversation pieces"–small genrelike portraits depicting two or more figures-active in England in the mid-eighteenth century. He made this study while at the height of his powers, and, though the doll-like personages demonstrate his continued reliance on dressed mannequins known as "lay figures," they also reveal his gradual adoption of more naturalistic poses and landscape settings. Here, an officer and his wife lean on a garden balustrade. Their love of outdoor pursuits is indicated by the just-plucked flower in the lady's hand and by her husband's riding outfit, complete with crop, spurs, and fashionable frock coat. Few drawings by Devis survive, but this one suggests the artist may have prepared detailed studies of his sitters to scale before painting them. The figures are seventeen and a half inches high, exactly the same size as their counterparts in a related oil portrait (ca. 1756-58; location unknown) that once belonged to the marquess of Ripon.