二月和三月的寓言 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	二月和三月的寓言
品名（英）	Allegory of the Months February and March
入馆年号	2005年，2005.418.18
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Joos de Momper the Younger【1564 至 1635】【荷兰人】
创作年份	公元 1579 - 公元 1635
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	页: 6 x 8 英寸 (15.2 x 20.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	Joos de Momper的这幅色彩缤纷的风景是对二月和三月的寓言。它曾经属于一系列六张纸，每张纸都说明了一年中连续的两个月。这种寓言意象在近代早期的欧洲非常流行。这些图片不仅要吸引眼睛，还要吸引心灵：它们需要被解释以揭示隐藏的含义。尽管现代观众可能会在翻译中迷失方向，但当代观众很容易理解这种景观象征着冬季的几个月，因为修剪树木（如右图所示）是一项活动，通常保留给三月。属于同一寓言系列的第二幅画作于2007年以拍卖成交。它描绘了十二月和一月，直接基于老彼得·勃鲁盖尔（Pieter Bruegel the Elder）的著名画作Hunters in the Snow（1525-69，维也纳艺术史博物馆，inv. no. GG 1838）。 De Momper寓言意象的更多例子是已知的：阿姆斯特丹的国立博物馆拥有九幅准备图纸，同样用于一年中的一系列月份。据我们所知，我们的画从未被印刷出来。由于其高光洁度，这幅画很可能打算与它的配套作品一起在公开市场上出售。
介绍（英）	This colorful landscape by Joos de Momper is an allegory of the months February and March. It once belonged to a series of six sheets that each illustrated two consequtive months of the year. This kind of allegorical imagery was extremely popular in early modern Europe. The pictures were not intended to be merely appealing to the eye but also to the mind: they needed to be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. Although a modern day viewer may be lost in translation, the contemporary audience would have readily understood that this landscape symbolized the winter months, for the pruning of trees, depicted on the right, was an activity, typically reserved for March. A second drawing that belonged to the same allegorical series, was sold at auction in 2007. It depicts the months December and January, and was based directly on the well-known painting Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525–69, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv. no. GG 1838). More examples of allegorical imagery by De Momper are known: the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam holds nine preparatory drawings, equally intended for a seriest of months of the year. Our drawing, as far as we know, was never brought into print. Because of its high finish, it is likely that the drawing was intended to be sold on the open market as a set together with its companion pieces.