03 — ARTWORK
Baby Visitors
- MEDIUM
- Oil on wood, 110 x 150 cm
- TYPE
- Genre
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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The year 1874 was a turning point in Munkácsy's life: he married the widow of Baron de Marches, which changed his lifestyle fundamentally. The painter, who had an impoverished childhood and was just as penniless as a young artist, all of a sudden became rich; now he came to live in a luxurious villaa residence in the country (in Italy); villas acquired palace-like characteristics from the Renaissance onwards. and had a busy social life. His new lifestyle soon became apparent in his art, too. Following his wife's advise, he gave up painting realist genres, and started to produce the so-called salonIn the French language of the 18th and 19th centuries it designated an actual exhibition space, as well as the academic art exhibitions staged in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre since 1667. From 1737, the exhibitions took place biennially and, after the French Revolution, annually in the Salon Carré of the Louvre in Paris. Towards the end of the 19th century the official Salon jury was dissolved in order to make way for a committee of state-approved artists, i.e. former Salon members, who created the highly influential Société des Artistes Français. pictures, which depicted scenes from the social life of the bourgeoisie.
In "Baby Visitors" the young mother and her new-born baby are visited by girl-friends, but the real topic of the picture is the luxurious interior of the bourgeois salon and the elegant dress of the ladies. The wonderful richness of colours is the greatest merit of this painting. From the time of the salon paintings his entire oeuvreThe complete body of works created by an artist. was characterized by this brilliance; the grim and dark pictures were replaced by bright and joyful paintings. The colours of this painting represent the high quality of Munkácsy's colourism.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Baby Visitors by MUNKÁCSY, Mihály},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
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urldate = {2026-09-09},
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