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Károly Lotz' name reminds us of a different style: airily beautiful portraits of Kornéla, his daughter, dancers, nudes of bathing girls with sensual charm or frescoes which decorated public buildings. Classicism and elegant, gentle and artistic cermoniousness characterize the later period of his career. The beginning of his career can be connected to genre pictures depicting the life of people: galloping outlaws, sunsets on the Great Plain, peasants playing the flute, sherpherds, fishermen and storm on the plain appeared in his pictures. He turned Petőfi's poetry into a picture: reeds in winter, storks lifting themselves up into the air, sweep-pole wells in the distance and galloping outlaws. His generation of painters, witnesses of the war of the independence, could not have spoken about the Great Plain and the Hungarian steppe in any other way than did a poet of that age.
It was not the virtuosic painter of later days who painted the picture because forms sometimes awkward or too emotionally painted followed the dictates of his passions, but one has the impression that in horses galloping and rearing Delacroix's influence is present. The picture represents the romantic branch of genre painting based on Hungarian folk art, out of which Hungarian historical painting was born.
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