MÉSZÖLY, Géza
(1844, Sárbogárd - 1887, Jobbágyi)

Sandmine (On the Meadow)

1872
Oil on wood, 24 x 38,5 cm
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (on loan)

Mészöly did not looked for large-scale motives, he thought the simplest motives to be worth of painting. In the case of Sandmine, a barren, sandy, poor landscape with a single lounging figure and a few poplars was enough for him to create one of the masterworks of the early Hungarian plein-air painting.


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