十七世紀法國銅版插畫中的中國意象－－中國風貌溯源

The Origin of Chinese Style in Art : A Study of the 《Visual China》 through Early French Prints in the Seventeenth Century

本文探討早期中國文化藝術經教會及商務使團引介，在法國社會之分布流傳及其在中法文化交流史中的意義。有關此類生活藝術及其視象化過程，基本上並不被學者們注意，對於當時傳教士及商務團自東方帶回法國的見聞圖錄，亦少有對其文化意義進行評估者。本文以法國十七世紀間刊印之中國見聞錄及其圖像為對象，探究中國文化在這些報導文學中如何被詮釋，被視覺化，又如何被引進上層社會生活圈，尤其是法王路易十四宮廷中的收藏風氣，如何助長中國圖像在此環境中的呈現形式，並進而影響十八世紀歐洲的中國風貌。本文為上述中國風貌的歷史淵源提供合理解釋。也使中法藝術關係自十七世紀到十九世紀的變遷與發展有較完整的呈現。

This paper will focus on the Chinese culture represented in early French print during the seventeenth century. We try to reveal its introduction to and expansion in the French society and its impact on the Chinese style in art (la chinoiserie) developed in the next centuries. We shall investigate missionaries, and travelers, interpretations of Chinese culture by examing their journals and illustrations. We will not only analyses the early prints and records descriptions, but also consider the social economic background which favored the Chinese fashion of artcrafts, especially under the court of Louis XIV. As a part of serial projects on the Sino-French cultural study from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, this study explores the early formation of Chinese art in French socety. It contributes to a comprehensive view of the French interpretation of Chinese culture.