花之女王 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	花之女王
品名（英）	The Queen of Flowers
入馆年号	2006年，2006.429
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Master of the Playing Cards【1425 至 1450】【德国人】
创作年份	公元 1430 - 公元 1445
创作地区	原产国: 德国（Country of Origin: Germany）
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 5 1/8 x 3 9/16 英寸 (13 x 9.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	《花皇后》是扑克牌大师创作的异常美丽和精致的版画之一，他是雕刻史上第一位伟大的人物。这位可能在阿尔萨斯工作的匿名版画家的名字传统上来自一组大约七十张印刷卡片，这些卡片以独特或罕见的印象幸存下来。这是这些作品中的第一部进入收藏。大师的纸牌由花、鸟、鹿、野人和猛兽组成的花牌和数字牌组成。为了方便起见，大师为每个数字和每个西装标志雕刻了单独的印版，可以组合在一张纸上。这里的花装以一朵展开的大花为代表，该花朵由与端庄女王不同的盘子印刷而成。整体柔和的色调和人物表面的轻微滑移表明，这件小作品很可能是手工印刷的，而不是用卷压机印刷的，后者在 15 世纪后期开始普遍使用。
介绍（英）	The Queen of Flowers is one of the exceptionally beautiful and delicate prints created by the Master of the Playing Cards, the first great figure in the history of engraving. The name traditionally given to this anonymous printmaker, who probably worked in Alsace, derives from a group of approximately seventy printed cards that survive in unique or rare impressions. This is the first of these works to enter the collection. The Master’s deck of cards was composed of number and figure cards in suits that included flowers, birds, deer, wild men, and beasts of prey. For expediency, the Master engraved separate printing plates for each of the figures and each of the suit signs that could be combined on one sheet. The suit of flowers here is represented by a large unfurling blossom that was printed from a different plate than the demure queen. The overall soft tone and the slight slippage in the face of the figure suggest that this small work was most likely printed by hand rather than with the rolling press, which came into common use later in the fifteenth century.