厄斯塔什·勒·苏尔《Meekness》（温柔）

《Meekness》（温柔）
作者：厄斯塔什·勒·苏尔（Eustache Le Sueur）
年代：1650 年
材质：木板油画（Oil on panel）
尺寸：100.7 × 67 cm
收藏：芝加哥艺术博物馆(The Art Institute of Chicago)

厄斯塔什·勒·苏尔为他的赞助人纪尧姆·比尔索内位于巴黎的家中私人小教堂绘制了八福图，这些八福图描绘了耶稣在《圣经》登山宝训中阐述的理想品质。这幅象征温柔的画作是教堂装饰的一部分，与一幅《天使报喜》祭坛画、几幅描绘圣母玛利亚生平的单色画以及一幅描绘圣母升天的天顶画相得益彰。八福图以金色图案为底，排列在这组精美装饰的底层。如今，仅存《天使报喜》祭坛画和两幅八福图。

Eustache Le Sueur painted the eight Beatitudes, the ideal qualities Jesus identified in his Sermon on the Mount in the Bible, for the private chapel in his patron Guillaume Birssonnet’s Paris home. This personification of meekness was part of that decoration and accompanied an altarpiece of the Annunciation, monochrome scenes of the life of the Virgin Mary, and a ceiling depicting her Assumption. The Beatitudes, with their patterned gold ground, lined the lower story of this elegant ensemble. Only the Annunciation altarpiece and two of the Beatitudes survive.