书名：Watteau at Work: La Surprise / 华托的创作：“惊喜”

作者：Emily A. Beeny

出版：J. Paul Getty Museum ，2021

装帧：平装，88页

语种：英文

尺寸：18.4*21.9 cm

值此让-安托万·华托逝世三百周年之际，本出版物将深入剖析他近期重获发现的画作《惊喜》，揭示其独特魅力。

让-安托万·华托（1684–1721）的画作《惊喜》属于他自创的一种新绘画流派——风雅宴会（fête galante）。这些作品展现了优雅的户外聚会场景，充满了求爱、音乐、舞蹈、漫步的恋人和演员等元素，它们并不着重于讲述故事，而是营造出一种嬉戏、惆怅、怀旧的遐想氛围。在华托的时代，《惊喜》被收藏家们视为展现艺术家技艺巅峰和成功的杰作，但自1848年起，它便从公众视野中消失，直至一个半世纪后才重见天日。2017年，该作被盖蒂博物馆收藏，此前从未成为过专门出版物的主题。值此华托逝世三百周年之际，本书将《惊喜》置于艺术家的作品全集背景中进行考量，并探讨了洛杉矶收藏华托作品的令人惊讶的历史。

Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau’s death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise.

The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself—the fête galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau’s day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a dedicated publication. Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Watteau’s death, this book considers La Surprise within the context of the artist’s oeuvre and discusses the surprising history of collecting Watteau in Los Angeles.

This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from November 23, 2021, to February 20, 2022.