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After the early 1870s Mészöly took pleasure in painting out of doors; he especially liked to depict dwellings on the waterfront along the River Tisza and the Lake Balaton. This small landscape also shows a small farm consisting of only a very few buildings, and although it is not on the waterfront, there is a small pond in the picture. In a manner that is characteristic of Meszöly. Nature is given the greater emphasis in the relationship between man and Nature. The men standing around almost form a part of the land. The pearly grey hue, so typical of Meszöly, produces a uniform and somewhat vibrating surface to the painting. The descriptiveness and the lyrical altitude intensifies the idyllic redering, that idealizing interpretation which was so characteristic of Mészöly's art.
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