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During his creative period, in the first two decades of the century, Gulácsy was not attracted by the artistic trends of the age. Fourteenth and fifteenth-century Italian painting was his ideal. He spent many years in different towns in Italy, and while the daily lives of the town folk interested him less and less, he became more and more absorbed in his own fantasies. Figures from Italian literature began to appear more frequently in his pictures, particularly Dante, whom he represented in many of the paintings with Beatrice. This drawing shows the tragic lovers of the "Divine Comedy".
His fine drawing, the gentle melancholy of his figures, his responsiveness to symbolism and interest in literature links Gulácsy with the English Pre-Raphaelites.
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