Agria 38. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2002)

H. Szilasi Ágota: Fejezetek az Egri Képtár 1945 utáni történetéből

butions which were later to prove instructive. The standing of the collection was improved when it was discovered, during a restoration made in 1955, that the painting entitled Boy Lighting a Pipe had in fact been painted by Hendrick Ter Brugghen, one of Caravaggio's most-celebrated followers. Ter Brugghen's work isn't the only painting to have been attributed or reattributed over the last few decades. The changes in attribution can be followed in the catalogues (1960,1964, the reprint in 1966,1972). The reorganisation of 1976 meant that some of the paintings acquired by the museum over the previous two decades could be put on show. It was a reorganisation which prompted the catalogue to be rewritten and the entries brought up-to-date (1979) - something which was particularly necessary for the non-Hungarian works. This catalogue was used right up until the reorganisation of 1996, despite a renovation in 1981 in which the exhibition space was modernised. The restorations which have taken place over the last few decades and the most recent research findings meant that by 1996 Eger not only had a picture gallery which compared favourably with many elsewhere in Europe but had an amply illustrated catalogue with serious academic pretensions. 72