Nagy Ildikó szerk.: A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Évkönyve 1989-1991 (MNG Budapest, 1993)

ACCESSION LIST OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY 1989-1990

ACCESSION LIST OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY 1989- 1990 COLLECTION OF OLD HUNGARIAN ART The Old Hungarian Collection increased with 31 items of inventory in 1989-90. There are infrequent medieval objects and baroque works attributed to well-known artists among them, and the research work completed in the meantime brought new attributions and made the significant acquisition more valuable. In 1990 we entered those 44 stonecarving fragments in the inventory which we took over from the Ferenczy Museum at Szentendre. These fragments came to the light during the excavation of the cistercian monastery at Pilisszentkereszt and were identified as pieces of sarcophagus of Queen Gertrudis made c. 1230 (Inv.No. 90.22.1-44 M). The sarcophagus can be related to French workshop and similar relics from France; its large part can be reconstructed on an exhibition. The painted and gilt wood sculpture of the Virgin and Child from Csepreg is a rare relic of 14th-century gothic art from Transdanubia (Inv.No. 90.16 M). We acquired by exchange a 15th-century panel painting representing a Saint Bishop and St. Thomas Apostle from the Christian Museum at Esztergom (Inv.No. 90-17 M); its counterpart, the "St. Eligius before King Chlothar" is being displayed on the permanent medieval exhibition as a deposit for the moment. The two paintings were recently attributed by Imre Takács to Hans Siebenbürger who obviously came from Transylvania, lived in Vienna and could paint these pictures c. 1470. The Pest Inner City Parish gave that renaissance stone-carving group which has been on display since 1985 as a loan. According to publications of Gyöngyi Török, the carvings belonged to the former early 16th-century high-altar of the church (Inv.No. 90.21.1-9 M). The clay-model of one of the angel figures sitting on the pediment of the church main gate, work of Antal Hörger, sculptor of Pest from 1723, got to the collection by purchase also from the Pest Inner City Parish Church (Inv.No. 90.18 M). One of the most significant acquisitions is Adam Mányoki's Portrait of Princess Sobieski which has been hidden for a long time. The painting was made in 1713 for the "beauty-gallery" of Friedrich August II, prince-elector of Saxony in Pillnitz and it got into art trade from the property of the Saxon reigning family in 1927 (Inv.No. 89.5 M). The signed table still-life of István Izbéghy Veres — worked in Kassa between 1725 and 1752 —representing crabs, pitcher, glass and loaf, is an excellent home-made relic of the relatively unfrequent form (Inv.No. 89.2 M). It got to the Hungarian National Gallery from a foreign private property. Paul Troger, one of the most impressive masters of Austrian late baroque painting, worked several times in Hungary. The small sketch The Flight and Fall of Simon Magus, acquired from a private property, is related to a lost by-altar of Troger in Hradisch (today Olomouc,). Several versions of the painting are recorded in Austrian and German museums and in Hungarian private property, so the example of the Gallery is considered as a work of the painter's workshop (Inv.No. 90.15 M). Five paintings attributed to Ferenc Antal Bergman (worked c. 1760-1810) are included in that portrait-gallery (Inv.No. 90.3-13 M) which was purchased from the Pákey family originated from Transylvania. A pair of rural genre paintings, the Peasant courtyard and the Saxon milkers in the cowhouse made by Ferenc Neuhauser of Nagyszeben in 1805, are interesting relics of the new secular painting forms appeared in the late 18th century. Both had been on display earlier and were purchased in 1990 (Inv.No. 90.19 M and 90.20 M). COLLECTION OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES COLLECTION OF PAINTING In 1989-90 the collection increased with several significant works of art. A Portrait of a woman (Inv.No. 89.8 T) painted by Jakab Marastoni in 1845 got to the