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品名（中）	新兵将加入该团
品名（英）	Recruits Going to Join the Regiment
入馆年号	2006年，2006.43
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Antoine Watteau【1684 至 1721】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1710 - 公元 1720
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	8 7/8 x 13 7/16 英寸 (22.6 x 34.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	《新兵参军》是沃特托职业生涯早期创作的一组描绘军事主题的作品的一部分。作为一个群体，他们避免流血和暴力，而是专注于士兵流动生活的世俗方面。一条生动而闪烁的墨水线生动地描绘了一个原本可能是沉闷的主题：年轻的新兵拖着沉重的脚步走向前线，接替那些遗弃或死亡的士兵。他们从右到左的行进在构图中留下了阿拉伯式花纹的痕迹，他们的位置和各种姿势暗示着当代舞蹈优雅而精确的动作尽管生殖版画是在他的大部分绘画作品之后制作的，但Watteau自己动手蚀刻的版画极为罕见。他没有接受过版画家的培训，但有几次在铜板上用蚀刻针进行了初步设计，后来由专业版画家使用burin重新设计。在为大型版准备印版的过程中，雕刻师——在本例中是小亨利·西蒙·托马辛（1687-1741）——会用更深的雕刻线条来加强图像，在很大程度上抹去沃特托精致而生动的蚀刻线条。这是一个罕见的印象，在印版被重新加工之前，印刷品的第一种状态 Perrin Stein，2014年5月
介绍（英）	Recruits Going to Join the Regiment is part of a group of works depicting military subjects made by Watteau early in his career. As a group, they avoid bloodshed and violence, focusing instead on the mundane aspects of the soldiers’s itinerant existence. A lively and flickering ink line animates what might otherwise be a dreary subject: young recruits trudging towards a war front to replace soldiers who have deserted or died. Their progress from right to left traces an arabesque across and into the composition, their placement and varied poses suggestive of the elegant and precise moves of contemporary dance. Although reproductive prints were made after much of his painted and drawn oeuvre, etchings by Watteau’s own hand are exceedingly rare. He was not trained as a printmaker, but on a few occasions made an initial design with an etching needle on a copper plate that would later be re-worked by a professional printmaker using a burin. In the process of preparing the plate for a large edition, the engraver--in this case Henri-Simon Thomassin the Younger (1687-1741)-- would reinforce the image with deeper engraved lines, largely obliterating Watteau’s delicate and animated etched line. This is a rare impression of the first state of the print made before the plate was re-worked. Perrin Stein, May 2014