每日艺术 | La Toilette: 梳妆 2021-10-21

弗朗索瓦-布歇，布面油画，1742年，蒂森-博内米萨国家博物馆藏，52.5x66.5cm

Today we present one of the classic Rococo artists, Francois Boucher. Together with Fragonard, he can be considered the quintessential artist of the French Rococo. This French style spread throughout Europe during the 18th century, achieving great splendor outside of France in Austria and Germany. A sense of grace, happiness, lightness, intimacy, piquancy, and sexuality are among the features of this style, which expressed itself through scenes of a generally lighthearted, frivolous nature and which extended its influence to a wide range of objects and decoration.

今天我们展示一位经典的洛可可艺术家，弗朗索瓦-布歇（Francois Boucher）。与弗拉戈纳尔（Fragonard）一起，他可以被认为是法国洛可可风格的典型艺术家。这种法式风格在18世纪传遍了欧洲，在法国以外的奥地利和德国取得了辉煌的成就。优雅、快乐、轻盈、亲密、活泼和性感是这种风格的特征，通过普遍性的轻松、浮华的场景来做表现出来，其影响扩展到广泛的物品和装饰上。

Boucher executed the present canvas during his most fruitful and accomplished period in the decade of the 1740s. It depicts a rather untidy domestic interior in which a lady ties her garter while choosing her cap, shown to her by a maid seen from behind. The setting of this charming, frivolous scene provides an invaluable document about the appearance of 18th-century French interiors. The walls and chairs are covered in a bright yellow fabric, against which the gold of the Chinese screen with birds stands out. The screen conceals the far end of the room and part of a framed pastel of a woman’s head hanging from a blue bow on the end wall. The chairs and dressing table are piled with heavy, rumpled fabrics, while the floor in front of the fire is also crowded with objects such as the bellows, brush, and a fan that echo the similarly disorganized group of objects on the mantelpiece above the fire. Adding to the mood of the interior is the playful little cat that has appropriated a ball of wool or twine from the sewing bag hanging from the fire-screen and is playing with the unraveled thread. 

布歇在18世纪40年代最多产和成就满满的时期完成了这幅画作。它描绘了一个相当凌乱的家庭内部，一位女士一边系着她的吊袜带，一边挑选背对观众的女仆手中展示的帽子。这个迷人、轻浮的场景提供了一份关于18世纪法国室内设计的珍贵记录。墙壁和椅子上覆盖着明亮的黄色织物，与金色中国屏风上的鸟儿相映成趣。屏风遮住了房间的另一端，以及端壁上用蓝蝴蝶结系着的带框女性头像粉彩画的一部分。椅子和梳妆台上堆满了厚重、皱巴巴的织物，而壁炉前的地板上也堆满了风箱、刷子和风扇等物品，与壁炉上方壁炉架上同样杂乱无章的物品相呼应。增加室内气氛的是一只顽皮的小猫，它从挂在防火屏上的缝纫袋中取出一团羊毛或麻绳，正在与散开的线玩耍。

We present today's painting thanks to the Museum Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid :)

感谢马德里的蒂森-博内米萨国家博物馆与我们分享今天的画作:)