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In Paris the artist received new inspiration: mainly under the influence of Symbolism he strove to create a single vast historical composition. Hungary was at that time celebrating the thousandth anniversary of the Magyar conquest and the Hungarian state commissioned Csók for a 24 square metres large composition depicting the ill-famed Countess Erzsébet Báthory with her bondswomen, the victims of her cruelty. The painting achieved international success but Hungarian official circles received it with antipathy, for they recognized in it a criticism of the aristocracy.
The painting was destroyed in World War II.
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