In summer 1886 Munkácsy painted two excellent pictures (Alley, and Park in Colpach) in Colpach, on the estate of his wife in Luxembourg. Alley shows endless nature in the depths of a forest and expresses spatiality.
Park in Colpach, painted in the same year, focuses on one tree only. The old tree with a strange structure helped Munkácsy who had been suffering of bad health cope with his problems. He carefully studied its role in composition: he painted with enthusiastic pastose brushwork leaves stretching out for sunshine and dark brown branches as if hands longing for light. In his acute artistic and personal crisis Munkácsy was yearning to be understood and supported, yet he found his peace only in nature. He indulged in what he saw, in the wonderful nature, perhaps this is why he managed to find different shades of green present in any of his pictures. He portrayed the creator's wish to be present everywhere in nature with suggestive simplicity and pantheistic certitude.
This feature of Munkácsy's art reappeared in pictures of Mednyánszky and Csontváry but thorough study of nature ended in the irrational in their cases.