Fishermen's Hut at the Lake Balaton - MÉSZÖLY, Géza - WGA
Fishermen's Hut at the Lake Balaton by MÉSZÖLY, Géza
Fishermen's Hut at the Lake Balaton by MÉSZÖLY, Géza

Fishermen's Hut at the Lake Balaton

by MÉSZÖLY, Géza, Oil on canvas, 140 x 226 cm

This large canvas, the masterwork of M�sz�ly, was made in Munich. It was commissioned by �gost Trefort, Minister of Culture, in 1874 for the Hungarian National Museum.

Art historians often connect M�sz�ly’s name with that of Camille Corot and by the beginning of this century he was labelled “the Hungarian Corot”. Indeed, M�sz�ly’s art is related to Corot’s and the later French plein air painters. With their mother-of-pearl, hazy colours, the pictorial values of representation and their intimate mood, they are quite reminiscent of the great lyricist among nineteenth-century French landscape painters. No wonder that foreign art dealers sold M�sz�ly’s pictures signed with Corot’s name to American collectors. There was even a big scandal - the best known among several - when, in the early 1900s a poor-quality, slightly modified copy of M�sz�ly’s Fishermen’s Hut on Lake Balaton was exhibited at the Modern Art Gallery of Dublin as an original Corot.

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