Sorrow

This head sculpted by Escoula and entitled "La Doleur" is the one of Pierre de Wissant. Escoula worked with some of the greates French artists of the time: Rodin and Carpeaux, while also focusing on his own studies and career at the same time. This head, is taken from the group named "The Death of Procris" which was exposed in 1890. The group was inspired by an episode of Greek mythology. Procris, married to Cephalus, was vey jealous of her husband. One day while she was spying on him behind some bushes, she accidentally moved a branch which looked just like a pray to the hunting husband. Cephalus, thinking to shoot an animal in the bushes, killed his beloved wife instead. This head sculpted represents the extreme sorrow that Cephalus felt once he found out that he actually killed his wife. This specific sculpture is a plaster directly moulded by the artist during the middle stage of his creative process. It is not yet completed but we can see the fingerprints of the sculptor and also traces of the moulder's palette knife.这件由埃斯库拉（Escoula）创作、题名《痛苦》（La Doleur）的雕塑头像，原型为皮埃尔·德·旺桑（Pierre de Wissant）。埃斯库拉曾与当时数位法国艺术巨匠合作，包括罗丹（Rodin）与卡尔波（Carpeaux），同时亦专注于自身的创作研究与事业发展。该头像源自1890年展出的群雕《普洛克里斯之死》（The Death of Procris）。 该群雕的灵感源自希腊神话一则典故：普洛克里斯（Procris）嫁与刻法罗斯（Cephalus）为妻，却对丈夫心生强烈猜忌。一日，她藏身灌木丛后监视丈夫，不慎碰动一根枝条，恰好被狩猎中的丈夫视作猎物。刻法罗斯误以为射中了灌木丛中的野兽，反倒亲手杀死了挚爱妻子。这件头像所刻画的，正是刻法罗斯得知自己误杀妻子后所感受到的极致悲痛。 该件雕塑为艺术家于创作中期直接翻制的石膏原型，尚未最终完成，我们仍可看到雕塑家的指纹，以及铸模工调色刀留下的痕迹。