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URBACH, ZSUZSA: Ein flämischer ikonographischer Bildtypus im italienischen Quattrocento. Bemerkungen zur Studie von Éva Eszláry

we exclude the possibility of a personal acquaintance, dating from earlier days, between the artist and Forray himself; all the more so as Forray shared a spiritual kinship with his sister's son, Tamás Nádasdy. Júlia Brunszvik, after her grandson's similarly premature death in 1856, dedicated the volume of 1859 emphatically to the memory of both son and grandson in her double grief.

28 As for the casting of the sculpture, it may have taken place in Vienna, probably in Anton Fernkorn's imperial brass foundry.

29 This assumption is supported by the fact that Countess Forray stayed in Vienna several times during this period.

30 Returning to the plans conceived by Ferenczy for a Forray bust, there is no evidence, however, as regards whether Ferenczy was supposed to carve his own sculpture based on that of Stepnitz; nor do we know if he started work on the portrait at all. His correspondence attests only the commission for the tomb. At this point, we have the opportunity - which will provide additional data about the early work of Ferenczy

's apprentice, Miklós Izsó (Disznóshorvát/Borsod county [today: Izsófalva], 1831 - Budapest, 1875) - to include in our investigations another bust, which has been treated as an anonymous portrait so far. The Hungarian National Gallery attributes a plaster portrait, the "Head of an Unknown Man" from 1861 (fig. 52) to the young Miklós Izsó.

31 In 1993, the sculpture was displayed at an exhibition of the Herman Ottó Museum in Miskolc, on which occasion the identity of the portrayed man remained obscure.

32 Studying the provenance of the bust, however, we may answer this question. The piece now on display in the Hungarian National Gallery previously belonged to the National Museum.

33 In the aforementioned catalogue of the National Museum compiled by Peregriny in 1900, the piece in question is included as item no. 35: "No. 35. Count Iván Forray. Represented above the chest, as looking a little to the right. His hair is long and combed to the front, he has a moustache and a beard around his shaved chin. Inscribed on the chest: "Buda", and on the plinth: "Cudl /"(?). Plaster, height 22,5 cm - Donated by Lajos Ernst in 1898. - Inventory no. new 99. - In the display case in the entry corridor."

34 28 This is how the biography of Count Tamás Nádasdy and Kriehuber's lithograph from 1856 was included in the edition of the Traveller's Journal. 29 R. Eitelberger, Kunst und Künstler Wiens, Vienna 1879, 124. 30 Divatcsarnok (17 March and 5 May 1853). 31 Catalogued at the museum as: Miklós Izsó, Head of an Unknown Man, Hungarian National Gallery, inv. no. 33.91, plaster, 22,5 cm, inscribed on the front: "Buda 1861 Aug. 11." Two bronze moulds were cast of it in 1964 (Hungarian National Gallery, inv. no. 65.12-N and Municipal Picture Gallery, inv. no. KM 64.105). 32 G. Goda, Izsó Miklós szobrászati életútja (The Sculptural Activity of Miklós Izsó), Miskolc 1993, 21, cat. 10. The data of the sculpture given here correspond to those in the inventory of the National Gallery. 33 Cf. the related inventory entry of the National Gallery, which names the previous location of the work. ,4 Peregriny, op. cit. (n. 22), 522.