Horváth János: Kunffy Lajos - A somogytúri Kunffy Emlékmúzeum katalógusa (Kaposvár, 2005)

AíU^<*y> friends even our ambassador, Khevenhüller-Metsch with counsellors count Nemes and Hadik, before it presenting to the Saloon. My wife taught my son how to bow at the guests. The ambassador was about to leave when the child run after him seizing his redingote not letting him leaves without his bowing. Even Mrs Munkácsy came returning from her estate in Kolpach to Paris, renting a flat at rue Jeojfroy. She offered me to rent Munkácsy'

s studio. I said I was not as ambitious, and being a modest person I refused her offer. The picture was put in the middle of the main wall of the gallery, it could be seen from big distance, it was very well lit. Being the characters in life size. One had the feeling to enter the courtyard of a Hungarian county house from the French setting. Replicas were made of it in catalogues. Several admiring articles were published about it, later lost, I only found the lines of a Parisian reader of The Graphic, a London illustrated review, it says: „Sir, we would be really pleased to be able to present your excellent picture shown in the 1907 Saloon titled „Child burial in Hungary" in our next copy. We hope to get your permission to reproduce it in The Graphic. " The little studio It presents the topics abroad. They convey the turn of the century atmosphere with its portraits, acts, street life pictures and other landscapes of great intimacy. A 90 éves Kunfjy önarcképével 1959. Fotó: Tabák Lajos. 77