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.