展示艺术和科学的自由研究，或鼓励黑人解放的美国天才 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	展示艺术和科学的自由研究，或鼓励黑人解放的美国天才
品名（英）	Study For Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, or The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks
入馆年号	2016年，2016.50
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Samuel Jennings【1789 至 1834】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1786 - 公元 1796
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尺寸	10 3/4 × 12 1/2 英寸 (27.3 × 31.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	出生于费城的詹宁斯在伦敦的本杰明·韦斯特圈子里度过了他的职业生涯。1791年左右，他根据费城图书馆公司创始人本杰明·富兰克林和董事的指示，开始为该公司的新大楼创作一幅寓言历史画，其中大多数是贵格会教徒和积极的废奴主义者。这项罕见的研究捕捉到了自由女神完成画作的视觉效果，周围环绕着艺术和科学的象征，包括一个地球仪，展示了可能代表法国殖民地圣多明各（现海地）的东西，1791年发生了一场大规模奴隶起义。在反对武装抵抗的过程中，Liberty似乎在倡导更和平的结果，因为被割断的枷锁停在她的脚边，她向一群获得解放的男人、女人和儿童做手势，用传统的时代恳求姿势画出来。在中间地带，黑人绕着自由柱跳舞，并弹奏非洲起源的美国葫芦班卓琴。这是已知的第一幅由美国出生的艺术家创作的关于奴隶制及其废除问题的画作。
介绍（英）	Philadelphia-born Jennings spent his career in London in the circle of Benjamin West. Around 1791, he began work on an allegorical history painting for the new building of the Library Company of Philadelphia, based on instructions he received from its founder, Benjamin Franklin, and directors, most of whom were Quakers and active abolitionists. This rare study captures the vision for the finished painting in the figure of Liberty, surrounded by symbols of the arts and sciences, including a globe showing what may represent the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), site of a major slave uprising in 1791. In opposition to armed resistance, Liberty seems to be advocating for more peaceful outcomes, as severed chains rest at her feet and she gestures toward a group of emancipated men, women, and children, painted in the conventional period pose of supplication. In the middle-ground, Black figures dance around a Liberty Pole, and play an African-derived American gourd banjo. This is the first known painting by an American-born artist to address the issue of slavery and its abolition.