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JÚLIA TÁTRAI: The Return of Barent Fabritius's Sacrifice of Manoah to Hungary

44. Barent Fabritius, Sacrifice of Manoah (fragment), Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts Possibly the painting was brought back to Hungary immediately following the Berlin auction, since, in past decades, several other works once belonging to the Gerhardt Collection have cropped up again in Hungary, but, the fact remains that for almost one hundred years, nothing was known of the painting's whereabouts.

3 Consequently Fabritius 's monographer, Daniel Pont, included the piece only at the end of his book, among works known merely from photographs, and offers no assessment of their authenticity.

4 3 Following the Berlin auction, the widow donated Francis Wheatley's Family Scene (inv. no. 4048) from the former Gerhardt Collection to the museum. Much later, after World War II, the following paintings were acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest: attributed to Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Five Children in a Landscape (inv. no. 51.806); Master of the Groote Adoration, The Adoration of the Mugi (inv. no. 59.8). In 2004 a small-scale painting on copper plate, Flight to Egypt, cropped up in a Hungarian private collection. This work had also been owned at one time by Gustav Gerhardt. Auctioned off as a work by Adam Elsheimer. the painting actually employed the same composition as that in an etching of identical subject matter by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich. 4 I). Pont, Barent Fabritius 1624-1673, Orbis allium, Utrcchtse Kunsthistorische Studien 11, Utrecht 1958, 133.