Live Auction 532819th Century European Art including Orientalist Art
Mihály Munkácsy (Hungarian, 1844-1909)
Lot 23

Mihály Munkácsy (Hungarian, 1844-1909)

Un Vagabond de Nuit

Closed12 June 2012

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GBP 49,250

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Mihály Munkácsy (Hungarian, 1844-1909)
Un Vagabond de Nuit
signed 'Munkacsy' (upper right)
oil on panel
32 5/8 x 25 7/8 in. (82.9 x 65.7 cm.)

Princess Valerie zu Schleswig-Holstein.
By descent to her husband, Prince Engelbert-Charles, 10th Duke of Arenberg.
By descent to his second wife, née Mathild Cally.
By descent to her son-in-law.
Acquired by a nephew of the above in the 1960s, The Netherlands.

Specialist note

This painting is a study for the central figure in one of Munkácsy's most celebrated works of the same title, today in the National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest.