03 — ARTWORK
The Condemned Cell
- MEDIUM
- Oil on wood, 88 x 116 cm
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- Genre
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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The outlaw's life and figure was a major concern for Munkácsy ever since his childhood. It is known from his "Memoirs" that he suffered much during the years of apprenticeship and that he always wanted to see a living outlaw as a symbol of free life even if he had to wait for him under a table in the inn.
In the drama of "Condemned Cell", he painted the embarrassed apprentice. Munkácsy had followed the life of his hero in his earliest 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. pictures painted in 1867 or illustrations for journals. He needed an immense amount of skill in order to paint a true picture of a man condemned to death who had been given proper food and looked after for three days, and then his family, friends and enemies were to come to say good-bye to him. His wife is sobbing her heart out in a corner, his little daughter is pottering about not knowing what is going on and she is munching something. The outlaw must have resigned to his lot and has nothing more to expect of life: he throws the Bible to the ground. A patch of the blue sky becomes visible behind the bars.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {The Condemned Cell by MUNKÁCSY, Mihály},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
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urldate = {2026-09-09},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
