埃德加·德加单版画《吕多维克·阿莱维与卡迪纳尔夫人》高清图片

作品简介

Conversation: Ludovic Halévy and Madame Cardinal (The Conversation) for "La Famille Cardinal" by Ludovic Halévy.

对话场景：吕多维克·阿莱维与卡迪纳尔夫人(《卡迪纳尔一家》中的“对话”)

这幅版画源自德加计划为其友人吕多维克·阿莱维(Ludovic Halévy)所著的《卡迪纳尔一家》(La Famille Cardinal)一书绘制的一系列30余幅独幅版画插图。阿莱维曾与人合著一部剧作《蝉》(La Cigale)，其中有一个角色明显是以埃德加·德加为原型创作的。

在《卡迪纳尔一家》这部讽刺故事集中，故事围绕两位在歌剧院工作的年轻舞者——波琳(Pauline)和维尔日妮·卡迪纳尔(Virginie Cardinal)以及她们从事皮条客职业的母亲展开。在19世纪末的巴黎，芭蕾舞是下层阶级女孩和年轻女性的职业，她们常被提供性服务。在这幅版画所描绘的开场场景中，以第一人称叙述的阿莱维在歌剧院的侧幕(wings，即舞台两侧的隐蔽区域)与卡迪纳尔夫人会面，安排与她其中一位女儿的私下会面。而舞者们，她们的性可利用性是这幅作品隐含的次要主题，却在此场景中明显缺席。

Ludovic Halévy once co-authored a play,La Cigale, in which one of the characters was clearly based on Edgar Degas.

This print comes from a series of more than 30 monotypes that Degas planned as illustrations for La Famille Cardinal by the artist’s friend Ludovic Halévy. The satirical stories revolve around two young dancers at the Opéra, Pauline and Virginie Cardinal, and their procuress mother. In late 19th-century Paris, the ballet was the profession of lower-class girls and young women who were available for sexual hire. Here, in the opening scene, Halévy, the first-person narrator, meets with Madame Cardinal in the coulisses (wings) of the Opéra to arrange for a private rendezvous with one of her daughters. The dancers, whose sexual availability is the subtext of the composition, are conspicuously absent.