03 — ARTWORK
Rumanian Family Going to the Fair
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- Oil on canvas, 138 x 109 cm
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Miklós Barabás was the first of the nineteenth-century Hungarian painters to contend with the more difficult circumstances of Hungary, and after study trips to Vienna and Italy, he finally settled in Pest in 1855. He won the great support of the literary and political leaders of the Reform Age, and was undeniably a pioneer of Hungarian national art. He was a founder and active member of art life in Hungary, and the beginings of Hungarian genre paintingThe depiction of scenes from everyday life. Elements of everyday life had long had a role in religious works; pictures in which such elements were the subject of a painting developed in the 16th century with such artists as Pieter Bruegel. Then Carracci and Caravaggio developed genre painting in Italy, but it was in Holland in the 17th century that it became an independent form with its own major achievements, Vermeer being one of its finest exponents. are also linked with his name.
He painted The Rumanian peasant family, dressed in folk costume, with great care and fine observation, setting them in the magnificent landscape of his native Transylvania. With justification this picture was considered the most beautiful folk genreIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. painting of its time. It met with great success at the 1844 exhibition of the Vienna Art Association, and later in Pest. In 1846, the Pest journal "Honderû" reported with great enthusiasm that the picture had been bought by the Hungarian Civilian Guard of Pest for the National Joseph Picture Galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen).. The donation can still be seen on the inscription on the frame.
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title = {Rumanian Family Going to the Fair by BARABÁS, Miklós},
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date = {2026-09-14},
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