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Perlmutter painted his pcture soon after his return from the Netherlands. He often left the Szolnok school for Besztercebánya. He summed up his artistic experience in the picture from 1906 which shows which path Perlmutter decided to follow but failed to realize. The somewhat longish market in a rich mining town is depicted from overlook. Houses, a church and stalls in the left-hand corner of the picture provide the setting in the distance. This is a real impressionist picture. Unlike his previous and later pictures, light breaks colours and makes them more intensive, as a result they lose their materiality. A version of the picture is known as "Church Square in Beszterce". There is no such picture in Hungarian contemporary art, but it is interesting to compare the picture with "Market in Besztercebánya at the Weekly Market", a picture by Josef Gutkais (1885).
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