Csornay Boldizsár - Dobos Zsuzsa - Varga Ágota - Zakariás János szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 100. (Budapest, 2004)

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

of Fine Arts? The events of 1859 indeed point in this direction: Júlia Brunszvik, having been waiting for the publication of the Travellers Journal, wished that the Journal and the bust of Iván Forray then in the possession of the Forray family become public property and the part of national memory, and she wished to achieve this by donating them both to Ágoston Kubinyi, the director of the National Museum. The letter accompanying the gift, published in its entirety in several newspapers, explains her motives with lyricism and makes specific mention of the sculpture:

20 "At the same time, lam sending you the bust of my son with the wish that, by the appreciation due to his noble and patriotic efforts, it should be placed in a suitable hall in the Museum." The same donation is confirmed by the densely thumping lines of the National Museum's list of acquisitions in 1859:

21 "Bronze bust. Donated by Her Excellence Countess Forray, née Júlia Brunszvik." Comment: "The bust of her son Iván f in Vienna" (fig. 51) S3 '4toS/t. V 51. Entry for the bronze bust of Iván Forray in the list of acquisitions of the Hungarian National Museum The next written source about the sculpture dates from 1900. Peregriny, who catalogued the collection of the Hungarian National Museum, provides a more detailed description of the sculpture in question: "No. 34. Count Iván Forray. Represented above the chest, as looking a little to the right. His hair, parted on the right, is curly on the sides, his moustache twirled, and The Countess writes about the Travellers Journey as follows: "(...') - These pages and pictures I thus compiled into this book, so that the most beautiful and enduring monument is made from the own work of the deceased, and by so doing not only his name be remembered, but the dignity of his spirit reflected in the nobility of his efforts. - But now Fate has demanded a new grief, another victim, by taking away from me after my dearest son also my grandson of such hopeful promise, Count Tamás Nádasdy! With a torn heart, I add to this work the brief sketch of his life, so that the shared merits and shared misfortune of these two shall be remembered together. - Let me now place a copy of this work of sad significance on the altar of the National Museum, with the wish that it is received kindly as the only legacy of a patriot who was by a cruel fate prevented from doing a more extended service for his country! (...)" in Aradi Híradó (23 April, 1859), 4; Divatcsarnok, no. 3 (1859), 415. Hungarian National Museum, Registry of Antiquities, entry no. 13, dating from 18 April 1859.