Birth of Bacchus

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1826 (?)

Károly Markó Sr. (Hungarian, 1793-1860)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Károly Markó, Sr.
Title: Birth of Bacchus
Place: Hungary (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1826
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed: C. Markó 1826
Dimensions: 55 × 50 cm (21 1/2 × 20 1/2 in.); Framed: 79.1 × 73.1 × 7 cm (31 1/8 × 28 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education
Reference Number: 2022.366
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Pogány Ö. Gáborné, “Id. Markó Károly művei,” in Művészettörténeti Dokumentációs Központ Évkönyve 1854–1955 (Budapest, 1957), 369.
Nicolas M. Salgó, Two Centuries of Hungarian Painters, 1820–1970: A Catalogue of the Nicolas Salgó Collection (Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1991), 18, cat. 2.
‘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, NJ: Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, 2003), np. cat. 3.

New Brunswick, NJ, American Hungarian Foundation, Two Hundred Years of Hungarian Painting, May 20–Oct. 14, 1990, no cat.
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.3.
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.

Offered for sale, Pisko, Vienna, Apr. 15, 1913, lot 64a, as Ideale Landschaft. Sold, Pisko, Vienna, Nov. 20, 1913, lot 79 as Die Geburt des Dionysos [annotated sale catalogue; in curatorial object file]. Count Rudolf Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (later Rudolf, 9th Prince Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, 1859-1930); his sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, Apr. 2, 1914, lot 797 as Ideale Landschaft, Geburt des Bacchus. Sold, Vienna, Dorotheum, Mar. 11-13, 1925, lot 47 as Ideale Landschaft for 3,000 österreicher Schillinge. Kzrisch collection, before 1926[this and the following according to Vienna 1926]. Private collection, Vienna; sold, Galerie Fromme, Vienna, Mar. 16, 1926, lot 41. Sold, Sotheby’s London, June 19, 1985, lot 136 for £3,300 to Nicolas M. Salgo, New York (d. 2005) [invoice from Sotheby’s London, June 29, 1985; copy in curatorial object file]; The Salgo Trust for Education; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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