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

THE YEAR 2003 - NEW ACQUISITIONS - CIFKA, BRIGITTA: Sir Joseph Noel Patorís Madonna with the Sleeping Christ Child and the Infant Saint John the Baptist

35. Sir Joseph Noel Paton: Madonna with the Sleeping Christ Child and the Infant Saint John the Baptist. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts. Detail, UV- reflectograph aged by a demand by the buyers, as well, which was undoubtedly important to Paton, who reared ten children. The gilded and carved double frame of our painting deserves special attention. The bead-patterned inner moulding that encloses the arched-top picture field is connected to the outer, angular, sculptural one by way of a simple, "gritty" element. It is ornamented at each corner with bagpipes and in the midpoints on all four sides with ears of corn, referring to the base material of the national beverage. The remaining fragment of a label reveals that it comes from the bookseller's shop of Finlay, Glasgow, 49 Buchanan Street, named after the ...King, where gilding and carving was also offered. Hitherto no other frame with devices referring to Scotland has become known to us. The tradition that the painting once belonged to the Festetics family appears to be trustworthy. It is obvious to think about Lady Mary Victoria Douglas Hamilton (1869-1922), the Scottish wife of the lord of the Keszthely castle, count Tasziló (1850-1933), who was made a prince in 1911. The daughter of the eleventh earl of Hamilton married Albert, the Prince of Monaco in 1869, but this marriage ended up in a divorce. Her second marriage, with Tasziló Festetics, took place in 1869.

8 The painting may have been part of the dowry of the Lady, but he may as well have Balfour, Paul, J., The Scots Peerage 4, Edinburgh 1907, 396.