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The best Hungarian representative of "paysage intime" was Géza Mészöly. He achieved the fine, poetic quality of his paintings in a manner similar to the Barbizon landscape painters, though quite independently of tham. Reality and imagination, nature and emotion form a perfect harmony in his art. He was known as the "painter poet of the Lake Balaton".
In "Autumn Sunshine on Lake Balaton" the fading sunlight, the yellowing bushes on the shore, the upturned fishing boats and grayish mist, all convey the autumn atmosphere. The marshy water gives a blurred reflection of the women. The artistic quality of Mészöly's paintings, the restrained pearl greys and vaporous atmosphere are reminiscent of the poetic beauty of Camille Corot's works, and it is not without reason that some of Mészöly's paintings were passed off abroad as Corot's.
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