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Oil on canvas and cardboard. Signed lower right: “F. Dvořák”. The mood of summertime, accentuated by an Impressionist play with light, emanates from this portrait of a seated young woman, a small and fresh painting by František Dvořák. A formally trained artist from the late 19th and early 20th centuries who has been essentially forgotten in Bohemia, this portrait and genre painter took a conservative approach that demonstratively ran counter to the modernist trends of the time. After studying under Jaroslav Čermák at the Academy in Prague, he continued his studies in Vienna and Munich. He then spent five years in the United States as a successful portrait painter for the upper class. He returned to the United States in 1904, coming back to Prague in 1906 to spend the rest of his life in the city. Seifert's poem June is written on the back of the canvas.