Title var
At Servant Agency
Artist
Csók István
Creation year
1892
Technique
oil
canvas
Size
116 × 150.5 cm
Sign
signed bottom left
Csók
Genre
painting
ID
000104
Exhibitions
Published

Az Ernst Múzeum Aukciói XXVII. Budapest. 1924. XXVIII. Tábla. Cat: 1022.
98th Auction Catalogue, BÁV, 11th December, 1996. pp. 37. ill. 197. starting price: 1.200.000 HUF.
Vaszary. Polgár Galéria. Budapest, 1998. pp. 2. ill. 2.
Bankár Calendar. November, 1998.
Polgár Árpád: A múzsa Csókja. Polgár Galéria. Budapest. 2001. pp. 14–15. ill. 3.
A Kovács Gábor-gyűjtemény / The Gábor Kovács Collection. Ed.: Fertőszögi, Péter – Kratochwill, Mimi. Vince Kiadó, Budapest, 2004. pp. 169.
Szalon. vol. IX.,  2005/3.
Révész Emese: Csók. Corvina. 2006. ill. 6.
München magyarul. Publications of the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria. 2009/6. pp. 163. cat. 58.
A magyar festészet remekei. Csók István. Kossuth Kiadó/Magyar Nemzeti Galéria. 2010.  ill. 8. pp. 14.
Catalogue. Nemes Gallery. 2010. pp. 28.
Affinities and Transformations. 18th and 19th-Century Hungarian Paintings in Private Collections. Kovács Gábor Art Foundation, Budapest, 2013., p. 124.  [kat. 29]

Notes
István Csók studied in Paris for two years, at the Académie Julian, before moving back to Munich, where he spent the first half of 1890. With At the Maid Agent’s, which he made in the Bavarian Rome, he nevertheless aligns his style and attitude with contemporary French painting. The subject that reflects a subtle social critique, the objective representation of the world of the poor who serve the bourgeoisie, and the palette which is lighter than what was then customary in Munich, all seem to reflect the lessons of Parisian modernity. The scene itself is set in Paris, as is obvious from the map on the wall, and the characteristic line of the Seine on it.