26. SASSETTA
St Thomas Inspired by the Dove of the Holy
Ghost
1423
Tempera on wood, 23,6 x 39 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
27. SASSETTA
St Thomas Inspired by the Dove of the Holy
Ghost (detail)
1423
Tempera on wood
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
28. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
Portrait of the Wife of Juan Agustín Ceán
Bermúdez
c. 1785
Oil on canvas, 121 x 84,5 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
29. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
Portrait of the Wife of Juan Agustín Ceán
Bermúdez (detail)
c. 1785
Oil on canvas
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
30. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
Water Carrier
1808-12
Oil on canvas, 68 x 52 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
31. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
Water Carrier (detail)
1808-12
Oil on canvas
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
32. GRECO, El
The Agony in the Garden
c. 1608
Oil on canvas, 170 x 112,5 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
33. GRECO, El
The Agony in the Garden (detail)
c. 1608
Oil on canvas
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
34. LUINI, Bernardino
Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and
Barbara
1522-25
Oil on panel, 94 x 72 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
35. LUINI, Bernardino
Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and
Barbara (detail)
1522-25
Oil on panel
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
36. MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban
The Infant Jesus Distributing Bread to
Pilgrims
1678
Oil on canvas, 219 x 182 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
37. MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban
The Infant Jesus Distributing Bread to
Pilgrims (detail)
1678
Oil on canvas
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
38. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo)
c. 1620
Oil on canvas, 96 x 112 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
39. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo)(detail)
c. 1620
Oil on canvas, 96 x 112 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
40. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Madonna and Child with the Infant St John
c. 1508
Tempera and oil on wood, 29 x 22 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
41. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Madonna and Child with the Infant St John
(detail)
1508
Tempera and oil on wood
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
54. ORLEY, Bernaert van
Portrait of Charles V (detail)
1519-20
Oil on wood, 71 x 52 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
55. ORLEY, Bernaert van
Portrait of Charles V (detail)
1519-20
Oil on wood, 71 x 52 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
56. cast Szépmûvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest_Picture
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57. The Szépmûvészeti Múzeum is the largest fine arts museum of Hungary. The
core of the Old Masters' Gallery collection is composed of the Esterházy Gallery,
which, though its history goes back to the 17th century, gained its final form at
the end of the 18th and in the first decades of the 19th century. The 637 painting
transported from Vienna to Pest in 1865 were purchased by the Hungarian State
in 1871 and thus the National Picture Gallery, housed in the edifice of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences was founded.
Into this collection was the gallery of the Hungarian National Museum
incorporated which, besides the Jankovich-collection included those 192
paintings which János László Pyrker collected in Italy as a Venetian patriarch
and donated to the nation in 1836 and also those 78 paintings which got to the
Castle of Pozsony from the Imperial Collection of Vienna in 1770 to go on to
Buda and later on to the National Museum.
58. The National Picture Gallery was enlarged as early as 1872 with 64
paintings, the gift of Arnold Ipolyi, scholarbishop. Károly Pulszky, a man of
a wide intellectual horizon, the director of the legal predecessor of the
Museum of Fine Arts completed the collection now gaining European rank
with gap-filling purchases between 1884-96. Six years after the opening of
the present building of the museum in 1906 the collection was considerably
enriched by the bequest of 121 paintings of Count János Pállfy.
Between the two World Wars besides the symmetrical purchases there
were generous donations as well. Some of the paintings carried to
Germany during World War II and transported back in 1945-46 were
damaged, and some, luckily not from among the masterpieces, were lost.