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    Mother and Children
    Pál Szinyei Merse. Mother and Children, 1869. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001759

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    Mother and Children

    by Pál Szinyei Merse

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right: Paul v. Szinyei 1869

    Provenance

    The artist; sold to Galerie Wimmer & Co., Munich, c. 1868 [purchased before completion of the work according to Kunstzeitung Dioskuren 1869, 189]. Private collection, United States, by 1911 [Lázar 1911]. Clarence S. Brown, New York, before 1990 [Szinyei Merse 1990, 186; this and the following according to Múzeum Digitár (hu.museum-digital.org), accessed Apr. 1, 2022; copy in curatorial object file]; with Francis Gruber (Pannonia Galleries), Washington, D.C., before 1990 [Szienyei Merse 1990, 186]; with Ira Spanierman Gallery, New York, before 1990 [Szinyei Merse 1990, 186]; with Jean-Pierre Guillaume, Atlanta, GA, 1992; sold through David Ramus Fine Art to Nicolas M. Salgo (died 2005), New York, 1992 [invoice from David Ramus Fine Art, Apr. 29, 1992; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to The Salgo Trust for Education; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

    Exhibition history

    Munich, Kunsthandlung Wimmer, May-June 1869, no cat. Osnabrück, Germany, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Pleinair-Malerei in Ungarn impressionistische Tendenzen 1870 - 1910, Sep. 18-Oct. 30, 1994, cat. 2. Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Budapest 1869-1914: Modernité Hongroise et Peinture Européenne, July 3-Oct. 22, 1995, cat. 15. New Brunswick, NJ, Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, ‘Everywhere a Foreigner and Yet Nowhere a Stranger’: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Artists from The Salgo Trust for Education, Nov. 23, 2003-Sep. 12, 2004, no. 43. New Brunswick, NJ, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, The Magyar Imagination: Selections from the Salgo Trust Collection of Hungarian Art, Dec. 8, 2007-Mar. 30, 2008, no cat. Budapest, KOGART Ház, Az impresszionizmus sodraban. Magyar festeszet 1830-1920, Apr. 3-Aug. 2, 2009, cat, 47. Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, Kép és kultusz. Szinyei Merse Pál (1845–1920) művészete, Nov. 12, 2021-Feb. 20, 2022, cat. 10 [Canvas and Cult. The Art of Pál Szinyei Merse (1845–1920)].

    Publications

    “Korrespondenzen,” Kunstzeitung Dioskuren (June 13, 1869), 189. Béla Lázar, Paul Merse von Szinyei, ein Vorläufer der Pleinairmalerei (Leipzig: Klinkhardt u. Biermann, 1911), 19, 79 no. 22, pl. 9. Béla Lázar, Szinyei Merse Pál: A pleinair festés előfutára (Budapest: Athenaeum, 1913), 27-28. Simon Meller, Szinyei Merse Pál élete és müvészete (Budapest: Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum, 1935), 58, 61 fig. 20, 62-63. Edith Hoffmann, Szinyei Merse Pál, 1845-1920 (Budapest:Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum, 1943, 1943), 15-16. Anna Szinyei Merse, “Bildgattungen und Themen im Jugendwerk von Pál Szinyei Merse,” Acta Historiae Artium 27, no. 3-4 (1981): 324-25, 226 fig. 47, 227-29. Júlia Szabó, Painting in Nineteenth Century Hungary, trans. Ilona Patay (Budapest: Corvina Kiadó, 1988), 43-44, 248 no. 235 [Hungarian ed. A XIX. század festészete Magyarországon (Budapest, 1985)] Lajos Végvári, Szinyei Merse Pál, 1845-1920 (Budapest: Képzőműv. K., 1986), 32. Anna Szinyei Merse, A Majális festője közelről : Szinyei Merse Pál levelezése, önéletrajzai, visszaemlékezések (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1989), 126-27, 132, 135. Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Nineteenth Century European Paintings and Drawings, June 23, 1981, under lot 52. Anna Szinyei Merse, Szinyei Merse Pál élete és muvészete (Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria: Corvina Kiadó: Széchenyi Kiadó, 1990), 45-48, plate 13, 63, 148-49, 153, 186 no. 69, 219-20, 236 [La vie et l’art de Pál Szinyei Merse]. Anna Szinyei Merse and Zsuzsanna Bakó, Pleinair-Malerei in Ungarn impressionistische Tendenzen 1870 - 1910, exh. cat. (Osnabrück: Verlag des Museums- und Kunstvereins Osnabrück, 1994), 78-9 cat. 2. Budapest 1869-1914: Modernité Hongroise et Peinture Européenne, exh. cat. (Paris: Adam Biro; Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1995), 94-95 cat. 15. ‘Everywhere a Foreigner and Yet Nowhere a Stranger’: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Artists from The Salgo Trust for Education, exh. cat. (New Brunswick: Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, 2003), cover ill., np. no. 43. Gabriella Szvoboda Domanszky, Szinyei Merse: A magyar festészet mesterei (Budapest: Kossuth Kiadó and Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, 2006), 12 (ill.), 18-24 [rev ed. 2009]. Peter Fertőszögi, Laszlo Szabo and Anna Szinyei Merse, eds. Az impresszionizmus sodraban. Magyar festeszet 1830-1920, exh. cat. (Budapest: Kovács Gábor Muveszeti Alapitvany, 2009), cat. 47 [In the current of impressionism : Hungarian painting, 1830-1920]. Orsolya Hessky, Réka Krasznai, Adrienn Prague, eds., Canvas and Cult. The Art of Pál Szinyei Merse (1845–1920) művészete, exh. cat. (Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts - Hungarian National Gallery, 2021), 10, 198 (detail ill.), 199 cat 10, 285, [Kép és kultusz. Szinyei Merse Pál (1845–1920)].

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Pál Szinyei Merse (Hungarian, 1854-1920)
    Date
    1869
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    137 × 94.5 cm (54 × 37 1/4 in.); Framed: 162 × 119.1 × 8.9 cm (63 3/4 × 46 7/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    hungarian
    Place
    Hungary
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education
    Accession no.
    2022.368

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