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As the son of Károly Klette, the court painter, Gusztáv Keleti had a most conscientious artistic education. As well as being noted for his romantic landscapes, he is remembered expecially as one of the founders of art criticism and as an organizer of art education in Hungary. As a critic he was mainly a proponent of academic historical painting, and over the years his own romantic style and patriotic sentiment grew nearer and nearer to the dry academic style.
The less rigid, painterly approach, the soft shading and homogeneous handling of this pencil sketch made for his main work, "The Exile's Park", is one of the most prominent pieces in his oeuvre.
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