Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 102-103. (Budapest, 2005)

ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - A 2005. ÉV - ANDREA CZÉRE: On the catalogue by Teréz Gerszi

tion of her scholarly work, she was elected member of the Belgian Royal Academy and received the doctorate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In the interval between the publication of the two catalogues, the author has addressed many different topics, her publications covering sixteenth and seventeenth century Flemish, Dutch and German art. In her articles, Gerszi has analysed in detail the drawing of Jan Brueghel, Joos de Momper, Frederik van Valckenborch, and Lodewijk Toeput. She has published a monograph on Paulus van Vianen, some of whose most remarkable drawings are in the Budapest collection.

3 Teréz Gerszi has also written a number of texts concerning the drawings of the Rudolfian masters in Prague and staged exhibitions around this theme in Salzburg and Budapest.

4 She was co-curator of the Prag um 1600 exhibition in Essen and Vienna.

1 A wdiole series of Gerszi's studies provides a close analysis and new interpretations concerning the Bruegel tradition that had a significant impact on the development of landscape art. The new catalogue, the result of several years of intense research, contains 131 drawings from Dutch and Flemish masters (fig. 78), as well as works of anonymous artists who were connected to these masters. The works of the seventeenth-century leading Dutch and Flemish masters do not constitute the majority of the Budapest collection; there are, however, works of remarkable but lesser known artists, whose activity may slightly alter our conception of the century's artistic production. At the same time, the Budapest collection provides a representative picture of Dutch and Flemish drawing, through a rich, diverse collection of sheets of varied topics and 78 FRANS VAN Ml ERIS THE ELDER. YOUNG MAN SMARTENING HIS TEN. BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS