Csornay Boldizsár - Dobos Zsuzsa - Varga Ágota - Zakariás János szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 99. (Budapest, 2003)

THE YEAR 2003 - RESTORATIONS

RESTORATIONS In 2003 several works of art of the Museum were cleaned and restored. The Coptic vase featured as the "Work of Art of the Season" was restored by Ágnes Zamadits (Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). The Niobide statue returned from the Getty Center, where the examinations revealed that it was not an antique piece. The restorer of the Department of Classical Antiquities, Mariann Dági restored three Etruscan mirrors for the Déri Museum in Debrecen. In the Egyptian Collection Irén Vozil restored five works of art, including a large ceramic vessel, and she cleaned more than forty objects. She also delivered copies after nineteen works of art for the Bible Museum of Budapest. In the Old Masters' Gallery, 418 works of art were cleaned in the course of the above-mentioned rearrangement of certain parts of the permanent exhibitions. Some pieces also needed partial conservation treatment and aesthetic repair. Besides these interventions of conservation, several works had to undergo complete restoration, which was made possible mainly from funds received from the Hungairan state and sponsors' donations. The restorers of the Department of Prints and Drawings (István Pankaszi, András Finta, Erzsébet Mózer, László Fehérváry) treated not only the works of art to be shown in the temporary exhibitions, but worked for other departments of the Museum, too. On occasion of the Verrocchio Exhibition, not only Verrocchio's Vir Dolorum-stâtue was restored, but minor interventions were executed also on other pieces in the Old Sculpture Collection: the Tobias with the Angel from Verrocchio's workshop, the Saint John the Baptist by the Spring attributed to the Master of the Saint John Statuettes, and a Pietà from the workshop of Andrea della Robbia were treated by Ildikó Boros and András Czinege. Éva Galambos restored the Gnadenstuhlgroup from an Antwerp workshop. When the exhibition Biedermeier, Historism earlier installed in the Doric Hall - was re-opened, the Collection of Modern Art had its works of art again on display cleaned. P. Palamedesz.: Cavalry Skirmish; inv. 313 (Dorottya Gajzágó) K. Du Iardin(?): Italianate Landscape with Shepherds; inv. 5238 (Zsuzsa Kovács) D. Meijtens II: Portrait of a Woman as Diana; 317 (Mária Velekei) G. Neyts: Landscape with a Castle; inv. 3938 (Ilona Csík) J. Victors: Isaac and Rebecca; inv. L.3.212 (Erzsébet Béres and Márta Jankó) M. de Hondecoeter: Waterfowl; inv. 215 (Judit Bendel and Nóra Hoyos) M. de Hondecoeter: Barnyard; inv. 51.2945 (Ágnes Dicső) A. Cuyp: Portrait of a Family before a Rhine Town; inv. 398 (András Fáy) A. de Cooghe: Italianate Landscape; inv. 322 (Edit Perjés) J. Coelenbier(?): Town on a River; inv. 51.2968 (Mária Velekei) D. Verburgh: Wooded Landscape with a River; inv. 6865 (Zsuzsa Kovács) CF. Nuvolone: Cupid; inv. 66.22 (Miklós Szentkirályi) J. van Kessel: The Ruins of Kostverloren Manor on the Amstel; inv. 258 (Edit Perjés) P.S. Potter: Shepherd and Shepherdess with Their Flock; inv. 59.1 (Márta Jankó) H. v. Limborch: The Judgement of Paris; inv. 253 (Mária Velekei)