MUNKÁCSY Mihály
(1844–1900)

MORNING IN THE COUNTRY HOUSE

1881
Oil on panel
Albany Institute of History & Art, Bequest of Margaret F. Lynch
Inv. no. 1999.33

One of Munkácsy's most original salon paintings, Morning in the Country House, was likewise part of a distinguished private collection in New York. Anthony Nicholas Brady (1841-1913), a businessman and one of the hundred wealthiest men in America, probably purchased the painting in the 1880s from the Sedelmeyer Gallery. The granddaughter of the magnate, who had made his fortune from electric lighting and the rail and tobacco industries, bequeathed the painting in his will to the Albany Institute of History & Art in New York State, where it can still be seen today.