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In sharp contrast with the style of painting taught by his masters - dark tones and the ample use of bitumen - and analogously to other young Hungarian painters in Munich, Karcsay's style originally leaned towards French Naturalism. Although an interior is shown in the painting, the artist still found a way to lighten the massive forms and to use colours of fine tones with the help of the back-lighting coming through the window. The choice of theme is unfeigned: the figures of a peasant carrying a basket and a girl arranging apples seem a little unusual in the age of anecdotic genre painting, when the composition was often based on a humorous pun. (Later Karcsay himself was given to painting such pictures) Actually; the central characters of the scene taking place in front of the gray wall of a cellar are the light flooding through the window and the colourful apples basking in the sunlight, rather than the two motionless figures. The painting was exhibited at the Palace of Exhibitions in 1886, and was awarded with the György Ráth prize.
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