Date of issue: 23 June 2006

The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts is one of Europe’s most important museums. Its distinguished place among them is ensured by the diversity of works and the many masterpieces that show historical continuity. For a long time the Museum of Fine Arts also housed Hungarian art, but on the creation of the Hungarian National Gallery in 1957 the collection was gradually divided in two. Since 1974 the Museum of Fine Arts has only housed general art treasures from ancient times to the present day. All of the departments – the Ancient Egyptian Department, the Antiquities Department, the Old Masters Gallery, the Old Sculpture Department, the Prints and Drawings Department, and the Modern Department – exhibit works of art that are known around the world, such as Raphael’s Esterházy Madonna, paintings by El Greco, Velázquez and Goya, Dürer’s Portrait of a Young Man, Leonardo’s Equestrian Statue, Manet’s Woman with a Fan or Chagall’s The Blue Village.

The miniature sheet marking the centennial shows a selection of works: Raphael’s Esterházy Madonna; El Greco’s Mary Magdalene; Leonardo da Vinci’s Equestrian Statue and Claude Monet’s Three Fishing Boats. The frame of the sheet shows a detail of the interior of the Museum of Fine Arts, while the first day cover is adorned by a detail of the exterior. The design of the commemorative postmark shows a stylised capital of a column.

Order code:
2006170040011/miniature sheet
2006170060012/FDC

Date of issue: 23 June 2006
Total face value: HUF 800
Number of copies: 150,000
Printing method: offset
Perforated size: 40 x 30 mm
Trimmed size: 165 x 67 mm
Printed by Pénzjegynyomda Zrt.
Photos by András Rázsó
Designed by Orsolya Kármán