The Interrogation

László Pataky left Piloty's class in Munich to move to Paris, where he was awarded a Munkácsy Scholarship. The effect of the great master is particularly evident in Pataky's paintings of rustic scenes. The astonishing composition of The Interrogation, painted in 1897, reveals an interesting connection with another disciple of Munkácsy, the German painter Fritz Uhde. Pataky's way of naturalistic rendering favours grayish tones, while it is full of light - characteristics which also related his art to the painters of Nagybánya, the school founded by Hollósy.