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3rd July, 2025
Godollo palace obtains Sisi painting
The Godollo Royal Castle has bought a previously unknown portrait of Queen Erzsebet by Gyorgy Raab painted in 1867, at a cost of more than Ft 30 million, Culture and Innovation Minister Balazs Hanko announced on Tuesday.
The painting and two other artworks were purchased on June 12 at the Kaiserhaus auction of the Vienna-based Dorotheum auction house.
Hanko told a press conference held at the Godollo castle on Tuesday that the palace was the Hungarian residence of Emperor Franz Josef and Queen Erzsebet – known to Hungarians as “Sisi” – at the time of the 1867 Compromise.
Tamas Ujvary, the executive director of the Godollo Royal Castle, said the painting immortalises Erzsebet in the dress she wore at her Hungarian coronation.
The artist (also known as Georg Raab) was an Austrian painter born in 1821. He worked in Budapest from 1842 and became the painter of the Vienna court where he painted members of the royal family several times.
Ujvary said the museum’s collection expanded with more than 500 art objects through purchases and donations last year, when it was visited by 356,107 people. (turizmus.com)
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