中文简介：

美国画家约翰·辛格·萨金特（John Singer Sargent，1856-1925）年轻时就对海洋充满热情，对船舶和航海有着深刻的了解。在18至23岁之间，他开始了自己的职业画家生涯，创作了一系列出色的海洋作品，这些作品构成了本次展览和书籍的主题。主要包括1878年在法国布列塔尼北部海岸画的《坎卡尔牡蛎采集者》的两个版本，以及围绕它们的一组研究和草图。作者将萨金特自由处理的大大小小的海洋画与他的水彩画、油画草图和海洋题材的油画成品联系起来。这些作品展示了他从一个户外画家到一个探索室内和城市场景的色调主义者的转变。此外，还展出了一本独特的剪贴簿，由大都会艺术博物馆收藏，其中包括50多张素描和速写，大部分是海景，以及艺术作品、建筑和旅游景观的明信片和商业摄影。这本剪贴簿展示了萨金特首次欧洲航行中的想法和经历。

英文简介：

As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between the ages of 18 and 23, he started his career as a professional painter with a remarkable range of maritime works that form the subject of this exhibition and book. The key works are the two versions of the Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, painted in 1878 on the northern coast of Brittany in France, and the group of studies and sketches around them. The authors relate Sargent's freely handled marine drawings, large and small, to his watercolours, oil sketches, and finished oil paintings of marine subjects. The works demonstrate his transition from a plein-air painter to a tonalist exploring interiors and urban scenes. Also presented is a unique scrapbook, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that includes more than 50 drawings and sketches, mostly of sea scenes, and postcards and commercial photography of works of art, architecture and tourist views. This scrapbook provides an intimate glimpse at the thoughts and experiences of the young artist on his first European voyage.