一棵大树 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	一棵大树
品名（英）	A Large Tree
入馆年号	1911年，11.66.7
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Salvator Rosa【1615 至 1673】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1615 - 公元 1673
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	24 3/16 x 16 7/16英寸 (61.5 x 41.8厘米)
介绍（中）	在他作为一名艺术家和文人所取得的无数成就中，才华横溢、喜怒无常的萨尔瓦多·罗莎对17世纪日益流行的风景画流派的贡献尤为突出。这幅充满活力的画描绘了一棵高耸、多节的树，其茂密的树枝和树叶矩阵被精心渲染，不仅因为其巨大的规模，而且因为它只关注一个标本而与众不同：与任何叙事背景无关，这棵树也与更广阔的景观隔离开来——树木界相当于一个孤独、站立的人物。罗莎的早期作品，这幅画是他毕生着迷于风景令人难忘的力量和威严的标志。虽然它很可能是在没有特定目的的情况下完成的，但一个可能的功能，尽管是推测性的，但值得考虑：罗莎最有成就和最精湛的蚀刻版画之一《拯救婴儿俄狄浦斯》是一幅技术之旅，因为艺术家将主宰构图的巨大高耸的树直接画到盘子上的方式，而不需要预备图的中间步骤。像《一棵大树》这样的研究很可能是艺术家掌握复杂树木形态的工具，使他在蚀刻板材时能够毫不费力地实现虚张声势。
介绍（英）	Of his myriad achievements as an artist and man of letters, the brilliant and moody Salvator Rosa's contributions to the increasingly popular genre of landscape in the seventeenth century loom large. This spirited drawing of a towering, gnarled tree, its dense matrix of branches and leaves rendered in careful detail, is exceptional not only for its monumental scale but also for its exclusive focus on a single specimen: divorced from any narrative context, the tree is also isolated from a broader landscape-the arboreal equivalent of a solitary, standing figure. An early work by Rosa, the drawing is iconic of his lifelong fascination with the haunting power and majesty of landscape. While it may well have been executed with no particular purpose in mind, a possible function, though conjectural, is worth considering: one of Rosa's most accomplished and masterful etchings, The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus, is a technical tour de force due to the manner in which the artist drew the massive, towering tree that dominates the composition directly onto the plate, without the intermediate step of a preparatory drawing. Studies such as A Large Tree may well have been the vehicle through which the artist mastered the complex tree morphology, allowing him to achieve what seemed to be an effortless bravura when it came time to etch the plate.