Csornay Boldizsár - Dobos Zsuzsa - Varga Ágota - Zakariás János szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 97. (Budapest, 2002)
The Year 2002
NEW ACQUISITIONS FRANCISCO ANTOLÍNEZ Y OCHOA'S FLIGHT INTO EGYPT The name of F. Antolínez appeared first in the inventory no. 10 of the Esterházy gallery from 1820, where he was recorded as the painter of a Flight into Egypt} However, the work has not entered the inventories of the Museum of Fine Arts until 2002, 2 after Klára Garas identified it in the storage of deposited works 3 as one of the pieces of the former Esterházy collection which remained in the possession of the ducal family at the time of their selling of the collection. 4 In an inventory from 1821, Antolínez' name is mentioned again: here a Flight into Egypt and its pendant, an Annunciation, are attributed to him. The latter work's location is unknown today. 5 On the same day of 5 December, 1821, a somewhat larger work by Antolínez depicting the Holy Family in the Carpenter's Workshop entered the inventory. This came into state possession in 1871 with the purchase of the Esterházy gallery and is catalogued also today as a work by Francisco Antolínez in the Spanish Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts. 6 The inventory of 1821 mentions Antolínez by his surname only, a circumstance that led to the confusion of the distantly related older José Antolínez of Madrid and the younger Francisco Antolínez of Sevilla in scholarly literature. This error is traceable from Parthey on, who referred to the two pictures then in the Esterházy gallery in Vienna as works by José Antolínez. 7 In 1869, Mündler entered the Holy Family in 1 Melier, S., Az Esterházy képtár története, Budapest 1915, 236, no. 1009: "F. Antolínez: Flucht in Egypten, K, 10"- l'l". 2 Inv. 2002.1., oil on copper, 25 by 36 cm. ! Verbal communication of Klára Garas in 2001, whom I would like to thank for informing me that the painting can be identified with no. 22 in room VII in the description of the Mariahilf palace in Vienna from 1835-1840. 4 Earlier deposit no. L. 3. 118 at the Museum of Fine Arts. 5 Meiler, op.cit. (n. 1.) 240, no. 1071 : "Antolinez: Die Flucht nach Egypten, Lw. h. 2' 4", br. 3' 2 ", and no. 1072: "Gegenstück zum vorherigen. Die Verkündigung Mariens" 6 Melier, op.cit. (n. 1.) 240, no. 1065. "Antolinez: Eine hl. Familie. Lw. h. 1' 5"- br. 1' 10". Inv. 802, 48 by 60 cm. A. Pigler ascribed the painting to a follower of Murillo. The Esterházy Inventar Journal does not mention the first name of the painter as José, as has been noted by Pigler, A. Katalog der Galerie Alter Meister, Budapest 1967, 474; H. Takács, M. followed Pigler when she published the painting under the name of José Antolínez in Spanyol mesterek Zurbarántól Goyáig, Budapest 1984, (3) no. 34. Barkóczi, [., in Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Old Masters ' Gallery (ed. Tátrai, V.), Budapest 1991, 149 (Francisco Antolínez); Nyerges, E., Régi spanyol festmények, Szépművészeti Múzeum. Budapest 1996, 112 (Francisco Antolínez y Sarabia, or Ochoa). 7 Parthey, G., Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichniss der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelhilder der versterhener Maler aller Schulen, Berlin 1863, I. 36: 2. Flucht nach Aegypten, Wien, Esterházy; 3. Heilige Familie, Wien Esterházy.
