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Like András Petrich, Libay was an artist whose most significant works were his drawings. However, he was not a self-taught artist, unlike Petrich, whose parents had always intended him to become an artist. Libay studied in the workshop of his father, a famous metalsmith, and it was only by chance that he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna rather than a metalsmith's studio. For a long time he earned his living as a metalsmith and art teacher. He lived in Ischl and Gastein, Austria, all his life, but he went on long trips and visited Hungary almost every year. As well as his sketch-books full of beautiful scenes of Egypt, Gastein, Salzkammergut and the Tyrol, he completed a long series on Hungarian landscapes, expecially of northern Hungary.
Despite the precise delineation of the landscape, the vegetation is loosely represented, the light hatching giving only a general indication of mass.
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