Sunset

This canvas was painted about 1874, when L�szl� Pa�l found the landscape that remained his biggest inspiration until the end of his life. In the spring of 1873, after finishing his studies in Vienna and D�sseldorf, and a short Dutch period, he settled down in the small village of Barbizon, at fifty kilometres from Paris, and surrounded by great forests. By the time he settled down, this area had been the most popular place for landscape painters in France for forty years. After Rousseau, Corot, Diaz de la Peña, Daubigny, Dupr� and others, Pa�l was deeply touched by the atmosphere of the area. “I have found what my heart has been longing for. I don’t believe there is a more beautiful place on Earth than this,” he wrote in one of his letters.