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One of the most significant areas of Rudnay's art is portrait painting. He often painted portraits of Böske, his wife. He painted a particularly sensitive and delicate series of her: she is leaning on her needlework, a book, or she is peeling potatoes - he arrested moments of household chores in their poetic beauty. The best known of this series is "Woman with Lace Scarf" which is second to none in his oevre in depth of emotion and pictorial delicacy. He portrayed his wife's features, the meditative look of the eyes and the smile on the lips with great intimacy, and with delicate and unfaltering brushwork. The delicately modelled face is surrounded by the white lace kerchief tinging with pink on the dark brown hair. The airily light transparent lace kerchief is reflected as a transition between the dark hair, the dress with a brown pattern and the bluish-grey background. Goya's influence is unmistakebly present.
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