丘比特与普赛克 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	丘比特与普赛克
品名（英）	Cupid and Psyche
入馆年号	1955年，55.503.11
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Jan Muller【1571 至 1628】【荷兰人】
创作年份	公元 1595 - 公元 1605
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	38.7 x 52.9 厘米
介绍（中）	1597年至1606年间，扬·穆勒（Jan Muller）以鲁道夫二世（Rudolf II）皇帝的宫廷画家巴塞洛梅乌斯·斯普兰格（Bartholomeus Spranger）的名字创作了大量大型版画。和现在的作品一样，所有的作品都是带有色情主题或暗示的神话题材，穆勒使用了一条动态的肿胀和渐缩的线条来捕捉拍摄对象的矫揉造作的姿势和夸张的肌肉组织。根据右下方的铭文，这幅作品是基于施普林格制作的陶俑浮雕这幅版画描绘了公元二世纪罗马省作家阿普里乌斯（Apuleius）讲述的丘比特和普赛克故事的早期时刻。普赛奇是一位年轻的女子，她的美貌足以与爱神维纳斯媲美，她非常愤怒，于是派儿子丘比特去惩罚这个女孩。他的意图是让普赛克爱上一个可怕的生物，但他用自己的一支魔法箭扎了自己，自己也爱上了他。在这里的场景中，丘比特站在那里，崇拜地凝视着睡着的普赛奇。他放下了弓，一个小天才（一个侍奉上帝的有翼人物）正在帮助他摘下箭袋，而另一个则在用手电筒将房间带入黑暗。
介绍（英）	Between 1597 and 1606, Jan Muller made a number of large-scale engravings after Bartholomeus Spranger, the court painter to Emperor Rudolf II. Like the present work all were mythological subjects with erotic themes or overtones, and Muller used a dynamic swelling and tapering line to capture the mannered poses and exaggerated musculature of the subjects. According to the inscription at the lower right, the composition is based on a terracotta relief made by Spranger. The print illustrates an early moment from the story of Cupid and Psyche, as recounted by the second century provincial Roman writer Apuleius. Psyche was a young woman whose beauty was such that it rivaled that of Venus, the goddess of love, and so infuriated her that she sent her son Cupid to punish the girl. His intention was to make Psyche fall in love with some hideous creature, but he pricked himself with one of his own magical arrows and fell in love himself. In the scene here Cupid stands gazing adoringly at the sleeping figure of Psyche. He has dropped his bow and a small genius (a winged figure who serves the god) is helping him take off his quiver while another douses a torch to bring the room into darkness.