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The subject matter of mourning has a literary portrayal in János Thorma's pictures. The scene in a graveyard shows that death is not particular about anybody and that mourners have preserved signs of their privileged status. The lady in black cannot avoid kissing the baby of the peasants at a moment of charity. The man wearing a hat and gloves is holding a handkerchief to the mouth, the autumn fog is choking him, but his eyes show that he is leaving the graveyard in thoughts. Peasant women are standing as if Fatal Sisters, probably by graves of soldiers.
Thorma had been returning to the subject matter of "Rise Up, Hungarians" for several decades, going through the history of 1848 which he managed to recall in some sketches, but his phantasy failed when this picture was to be painted.
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