03 — ARTWORK
Fishermen's Hut at the Lake Balaton
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 140 x 226 cm
- TYPE
- Landscape
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1100 × 665 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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This large canvasA woven cloth used as a support for painting. The best-quality canvas is made of linen; other materials used are cotton, hemp, and jute. It is now so familiar a material that the word 'canvas' has become almost a synonym for an oil painting, but it was not until around 1500 that it began to rival the wooden panel (which was more expensive and took longer to prepare) as the standard support for movable paintings (the transition came later in Northern Europe than in Italy). Canvas is not suitable for painting on until it has been coated with a ground, which isolates the fabric from the paint; otherwise it will absorb too much paint, only very rough effects will be obtainable, and parts of the fabric may be rotted by the pigments. It must also be made taut on a stretcher or by some other means., the masterwork of Mészöly, was made in Munich. It was commissioned by Ágost Trefort, Minister of Culture, in 1874 for the Hungarian National Museum.
Art historians often connect Mészöly's name with that of Camille Corot and by the beginning of this century he was labelled "the Hungarian Corot". Indeed, Mészöly'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 Mészöly'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 Mészöly's Fishermen's Hut on Lake Balaton was exhibited at the Modern Art Galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen). of Dublin as an original Corot.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Fishermen's Hut at the Lake Balaton by MÉSZÖLY, Géza},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
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urldate = {2026-09-13},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
