圣母与孩子祝福 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	圣母与孩子祝福
品名（英）	The Virgin with the Child Blessing
入馆年号	2014年，2014.662
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 1588 - 公元 1598
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 8 15/16 × 6 英寸 (22.7 × 15.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	《圣母与孩子的祝福》是一幅未完成的版画，是扬·穆勒（Jan Muller）用钢笔和棕色墨水修饰并修改构图的工作证明。他对圣母的帷幔进行了调整，加固了折痕并加深了阴影，重新绘制了她左肩的轮廓，使其看起来更高，并增加了玛丽和基督光环的光芒四射的线条。这些人物是半身，圣母将圣婴牢牢地抱在怀里，同时他以传统的祝福手势向观众举起右手。在完成的作品中，穆勒对这张证明上用笔墨表示进行了更改，并在下面包括了一个幻觉框架和正式铭文，强调了作品的虔诚性质。这不是取自圣经的场景，而是一个旨在激发敬畏和祈祷的图像。穆勒一生中印刷了大量工作校样。他是第一位这样做的艺术家，他的 92 或 93 幅版画的 170 多样今天仍然存在。
介绍（英）	The Virgin with the Child Blessing is an unfinished engraving, a working proof that Jan Muller retouched in pen and brown ink, revising the composition. He made adjustments to the Virgin’s drapery, reinforcing the creases and deepening the shadows, redrew the outline of her left shoulder, making it appear higher, and added to the radiant lines of the Mary’s and Christ’s halos. The figures are in half length, the Virgin holding the Christ Child firmly in her arms, while he raises his right hand to the viewer in the traditional gesture of blessing. In the finished composition, Muller made the changes indicated in pen and ink on this proof and also included an illusionistic frame and a formal inscription below, emphasizing the devotional nature of the composition. This is not a scene taken from the Bible but an image intended to inspire reverence and prayer. Muller printed an extraordinary number of working proofs during his lifetime. He is the first artist to have done so and more than 170 proofs of his 92 or 93 engravings still exist today.