# Bottom of the Village [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MÉSZÖLY, Géza]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on wood, 18 x 14 cm ## Commentary Mészöly's art developed evently. He worked from nature, and true to nature his works are full of poetic charm. He treats the poverty-stricken villages with unsophisticated simplicity. "The Bottom of the Village" is one of the most beautiful pieces of his oeuvre. The yellows and rusts shimmer with moisture, and the whitewashed cottages and white garments of the villagers shine out of the dark shadow of the lane. His carefully drawn, realistically painted pictures are never dull, they all pulsate with the poetic beauty of the scenery. His art is a welltuned overture to Hungarian "plein-air" painting. It is to his lasting credit that he left so many paintings of the Hungarian countryside. ## Related artworks - [Fishermen's Ferry at the River Tisza \(detail\)]() - [Fishermen's Ferry at the River Tisza]() - [Fishermen's Hut at the Lake Balaton]() - [Fishermen's Hut at the Lake Balaton]() - [In Front of a Peasant House]() - [Landscape with Sleeping Boy]() - [Landscape with Windmill \(Detail of Szentiván\)]() - [The Spring]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()