Sz. Kürti Katalin: Munkácsy és Colpach (Békéscsaba, 2010)

Resume. Munkácsy and Colpach

He was encouraged to move to Paris by an art-dealer Adolphe Goupil and Baron Edouard de Marches and his wife, whom he was introduced at the Christmas of 1870. The couple helped intensively the painter, who moved to Paris in 1871, inviting him more and more often to their castle located in Colpach, Luxemburg. Here he made wall-paintings in the old arching dining room. The baron and his wife Cécile were sitting model to him in 1872-1873 in Colpach. Baron de Marches died in larynx cancer in the summer of 1873. His widow and the young painter got married on August 5th-, 1874 in Colpach.

Cécile spent the summers in Colpach, farming with the help of her father. Munkácsy worked in Paris in the larger part of the year. Here he made his genres, salon pictures, portraits and Passion paintings in large size. In 1878 he concluded a ten-year frame-contract with an art-collector Charles Sedelmeyer, urging him to make greater and greater works in turn for the remarkable income allowing him to live in luxury. Modernising and extending Colpach went with a great