Nagy Ildikó szerk.: A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Évkönyve 1992-1996 (MNG Budapest, 1998)

ACCESSION LIST OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY 1991-1996

ACCESSION LIST OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY 1991-1996 COLLECTION OF OLD HUNGARIAN ART 1991 5 pieces (3 paintings, 2 sculptures) Of salient importance is the Virgin of Sorrows, a large calvary figures from the first half of the 14th c, from the property of the Rajka parish (inv.no.: 91.7.M) and Franz Xaver Wagenschön'

's painting, The Judgment of Paris (inv.no.: 91.1.M). 1992 36 pieces ( 11 paintings, 5 sculptures, 20 fragments of carved stone) Accrument was chiefly through museum exchange and transfer that year: sculpture fragments derived from Pilis-szentkereszt and Buda excavations were transferred from the Ferenczy Museum of Szentendre and the Budapest Historical Museum (early 13th c. and mid-15th c, inv.nos: 92.3.1-9.M; 92.4.1-7.

M; 92.5.1-12.M; 92.27-37.M; and 92.21-26.M), six baroque paintings with relevance to Hungary came from the Museum of Fine Arts, a portrait ofMargaret of Austria, Queen of Spain around 1600 from the Esztergom Christian Museum (inv.nos: 92.13-18.M, and 92.1.M). The Rom.Cath. parish of Sződ donated three large wooden statues by János Strecius sr. carved around 1700 to the collection (inv.nos: 92.6-8.M). Further important acquisitions: a Saint Eligius tablet from the mid15th c. by Hans Siebenbürger (inv.no.: 92.19.

M), the portrait of Ferdinand HI, King of Hungary, by Justus Sustermans (inv.no.: 92.20.M). The latter came from abroad, via exchange. 1993 5 pieces (4 paintings, 1 sculpture) Important acquisitions: Hagar and Ismael in the desert, by Norbert Grund (inv.no.: 93.1.

M), Martin Speer's Dead Female Saint (inv.no.: 93.3.M), and Elisabetta Si rani s The Virgin and child (inv.no.: 93.5.M), as well as a sketch by Carlo Carlone for the altar picture of Paura (inv.no.: 93.4.M). 1994 30 pieces (6 paintings, 2 sculptures, 22 pieces of carved stone) Apart from further transfer of 13th c. stone carvings and statue fragments unearthed at Pilisszentkereszt, which began arriving in 1992, the baroque collection was enlarged by 7 purchases, the most momentous being the purchase of Adám Mányokis miniature portrait whose whereabouts were unknown for half a century (inv.no.: 94.5.M). Other attainments include pictures by Farkas Kopp, Carl Caspar, Joseph Dorffmeister, and Daniel Schmiddely (inv.nos: 94.1.M; 94.2.M; 94.4.M; 94.30.M). 1995 4 pieces (3 paintings, 1 stone carving) Besides the purchase of a landscape from the circle of Johann Christian Brand, the major acquisition that year was Vinzenz Fischer's The sacrifice of Iphigenia, a picture of 1802 so far not known about (inv.nos: 95.1.M; 95.4.M). 1996 10 pieces (all paintings) The exchanged or bought items were to increase the baroque collection in the first place. Noteworthy for Central European art are: an early 17th c, possibly Tyrolean altarpiece showing the Virgin among Dominican saints (inv.no.:96.1.M), a Virgin with Scant Ann and the Infant Jesus presumably by a follower of Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (inv.no.: 96.2.

M) and a Vanitas still-life by Johann Philipp von Purgau (inv.no.: 96.3.

M). Some works more closely related to Hungary, e.g. Franz Seewald's Portrait of a man (inv.no.: 96.9.M) known only from verbal information so far, and Portraits of married couples by Ferdinand Oszwald of Pozsony (inv.nos: 96.7-8.M). The series of Farkas Köpp already in the museum was enlarged by another two representations of months (inv.nos: 96.5-6.M).