德加 蚀刻和干刻版画肖像《玛格丽特·德·加》图片

作品简介

这幅精致而亲密的肖像画描绘的是艺术家的妹妹玛格丽特·德·加(Marguerite De Gas)，创作于德加从意大利逗留三年后返回巴黎不久之后。这幅画展示了他对蚀刻版画这一媒介日益精湛的驾驭能力，这种能力是他在国外期间开始认真探索的。在这一时期，肖像画在德加的作品中占据主导地位，而他最早涉足这一题材时，自然将焦点放在了家人身上。这是现存唯一一幅该蚀刻版画第二版次的印品，也是他印制的六个版次中最成功的一幅。德加因过度使用版画底版而将其损坏，之后他批准以这幅印品为蓝本制作凹版照相制版(摄影印刷品)，由此表明了他对这幅作品的偏爱。

This exquisite, intimate portrait of the artist’s sister, Marguerite De Gas, dates from shortly after Degas’s return to Paris following a three-year sojourn in Italy. It demonstrates his increasing sophistication with the medium of etching, which he had begun to explore in earnest while abroad. Portraiture dominated Degas’s practice in this period, and his earliest work in the genre focused naturally on his family members. This is the only extant impression of the second state of the etching and the most successful of the six states he printed. Degas indicated his preference for it by approving the production of a heliogravure (photographic print) based on this impression after he ruined the plate by overworking it.