Friday, May 13, 2022

 From the royalty of yesterday to the other end of the social spectrum:
 

 Mihály Munkácsy 

(1844 -1900)
 

Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihály_Munkácsy

Gypsy family
19th century
Oil on canvas
115 x  145 cm
Private collection
1984 to 1992 as a loan from a private collection in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

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