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

50. Etching of the tomb of Count Iván Forray version of which he finished by December 1853.

18 The well-informed press of the time, however, reports also the project of a bust. The Divatcsarnok records the meeting of Ferenczy and the Countess in the summer of 1853, during which plans for a bust, in addition to the tomb, were outlined, as follows: "It is at our honoured friends and colleagues, Mr. Endre Fáy's place that the sculptor István Ferenczy has been entertained for some weeks now. As we understand, the noble artist is going to undertake the creation of a major sculptural work for Her Excellency Countess Júlia Forray-Brunszvik. Will it perhaps be the white marble bust of Count Iván Forray, the recently deceased last male offspring of this distinguished family, a model of which can already be seen in the glittering halls of Her Excellence the Countess's palace?"

19 What became the fate of the bust conceived by Ferenczy after the artists imminent death will be touched upon at the end of this study. Anyhow, as it is apparent from the source above, there existed a sculptural portrait of Iván in 1853, even if it was not by Ferenczy s hands. Is it possible that this sculpture(-model), which stood in the halls of the Countess's palace barely a year after Forray s death, is related to, or is identical with, the bust kept in the Modern Collection of the Museum ls "... the first thing I did was to cast the model in plaster for Countess Forray, which I completed about the 19 December..." ibid, (to József Ferenczy, Rimaszombat, January 1854). 19 Divatcsarnok (18 September 1853), 987.