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Katalógus / Catalogue - V. Venus-minták / Models of Venus - Granasztói Olga: Rubens és Van Dyck Mosonmagyaróváron / Rubens and Van Dyck at Mosonmagyaróvár

Rubens and Van Dyck at Mosonmagyaróvár Pictures among the documents of the Censors' Office of Hungary's Viceregal Council, 1780-1800 OLGA GRANASZTÓI [SUMMARY] In September 1796, on St Matthew's Day (21 September), Paregino Giezelli, an art dealer from Pest, attempted to sell four "scandalous" pictures at the fair in Mosonmagyaróvár: the engravings La femme de Van Dyck, La femme de Kubens, Evantaü cassé and Instant favorable. The deputy of the county's chief administrator together with the local inspector, the canon of Győr, declared them so indecent that the confiscation of all four was ordered. The documents relating to the case, which lasted several months and resulted in dozens of files, can be found among the papers of the auditing department of the Archives of the Viceregal Council. The documents are exceptional because comparatively little evidence of the trade in prohibited pictures survives from the abovementioned period 1780-1800, which began with the accession of Joseph II and ended when Francis II was already on the throne. The paper uses this spectacular example to point out that the censors' files, studied up until now from the point of view of the book trade, may be valuable sources for the rising local trade in art, besides affording an insight into the relationship between political power and art. In the end, permission was granted for the marketing of the engravings made (by J. E. Mansfeld) after works by Rubens and Van Dyck, but the two French works were banned. This suggests that although in the 1790s, at the beginning of Francis IPs reign, even recensorship - the retrospective review of printed works - was proposed, Rubens and Van Dyck, along with copies of their nude works, remained intact in an artistic sense. On the other hand, special caution was exhibited towards anything coming from France: it was hardly the obscenity of the two piquant engravings that put them on the blacklist. Pictures imbued with libertinism were politically dangerous: the official ideology claimed that the moral depravity of the French had contributed as much to their revolution as had their anticlericalism and dangerous Enlightenment views. After 1795, when the leaders of a Jacobin conspiracy in Hungary were executed, it was advisable to be particularly circumspect in this regard. V-29 JOHANN ERNST MANSFELD RUBENS FELESÉGE THE WIFE OF RUBENS 18. sz. VÉGE Rézmetszet, papír; 332 x 227 mm Felirat b. a kép alatt félkörívben: Peint par P. P. Rubens Felirat j. a kép alatt félkörívben: Gravée par J, M. Felirat a kép alatt: La femme de Rubens L'original se touve dans la Galerie Imp. Roy. a Vienne, a vis a vis de la Chancellerie de la Guerre Wien, Albertina, ltsz.: Ö. XCVIII (2.) fol. 27. No. 536 A mű Peter Paul Rubens híres és sokat másolt Felesége arcképe (Bundácska, 1635-1640. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Bécs. Olaj, fa; 176 X 83 cm) című festménye alapján készült. G . O . - l . G Y .