月光下的海景，月光照耀的海上風(fēng)景油畫moonlit seascape-1892_阿爾弗雷德·埃米爾·利奧波德·史蒂文斯油畫作品欣賞。
1880年，史蒂文斯被建議服用海洋空氣作為治療支氣管疾病的藥物，據(jù)稱支氣管疾病是由吸入松節(jié)油煙霧引起的。按照這個建議，他開始每年花兩個月的時間在諾曼底海岸。在這些訪問中，他描繪了海景和海濱度假酒店協(xié)會。這時，他的名聲已經(jīng)如此之好，以至于商人喬治·佩蒂保證每一季付給這位藝術(shù)家五萬法郎作為海景畫的報酬。
澳大利亞國家美術(shù)館畫作中這一場景的確切位置仍不得而知。史蒂文斯在沙龍的海景表現(xiàn)出德馬爾畫在1892年,勒阿弗爾翁弗勒爾諾曼底,在塞納河的口,而在1893年5月在Loctudy畫,在布列塔尼的西部。畫廊的畫作中包含了一艘汽船，這表明人口更稠密的諾曼底海岸可能是拍攝地點。
史蒂文斯在月光下描繪的大海，讓人想起17世紀(jì)荷蘭和佛蘭德的夜景傳統(tǒng)，以及約瑟夫·韋爾內(nèi)(Joseph Vernet, 1758-1836)在月光下的海景，當(dāng)時這兩幅畫正在盧浮宮展出。史蒂文斯和他的朋友愛德華·馬奈(Edouard Manet, 1832-83)都擁有一幅阿爾特·范德尼爾(Aert van der Neer, 1603/4-77)的《月光下的倫恩》(clair de lune)，馬奈在1869年創(chuàng)作了一幅夜間海景畫《布洛涅港的月光》(Moonlight over Boulogne Harbour, 1869)(奧賽博物館，巴黎)，當(dāng)它在1872年被商人保羅·杜蘭-魯爾(Paul Durand-Ruel)買下時，它就在史蒂文斯的工作室里。
In 1880 Stevens was advised to take the sea air as a remedy for a bronchial condition allegedly caused by breathing turpentine fumes. Acting on this advice he began spending two months of each year on the Normandy coast. During these visits he painted seascapes and the hotel society of the seaside resorts. By this time his reputation was such that the dealer Georges Petit guaranteed to pay the artist 50 000 francs for his output of seascapes per season.
The exact location of the scene in the Australian National Gallery's painting remains unknown. The seascapes exhibited by Stevens at the Salon de Mar in 1892 were painted in the Le Havre-Honfleur area of Normandy, at the mouth of the Seine, while those exhibited in May 1893 were painted at Loctudy, in the west of Brittany. The inclusion of a steamer in the Gallery's painting indicates that the more populous Normandy coast is the likely location.
Stevens' depiction of the sea by moonlight evokes the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish nocturnal landscapes and the moonlit seascapes of Joseph Vernet (1758-1836) which were then on view in the Louvre. Stevens himself owned a 'clair de lune' by Aert van der Neer (1603/4-77), as did his friend Edouard Manet (1832-83), whose own painting of a nocturnal seascape, Moonlight over Boulogne Harbour 1869 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), was in Stevens' studio when it was purchased by the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel in 1872.
