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Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right: “J. Honsa”. Reverse: “Typická krajina Honsova/ Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic” (Typical landscape by Honsa / Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic) and stamp of the Karásek Gallery. “Farmhouses” is a typical work capturing the character and mood of the region most frequently painted by the artist, the foothills of the Eagle Mountains. Jan Honsa was one of Julius Mařák's youngest students; he was accepted to the landscape painting class at the Academy in Prague in 1893. In 1903 Honsa traveled to Paris and Normandy, and at the World's Art Fair in St. Louis in 1904 he received the bronze medal for his painting “Summer Afternoon”. His later travels led him to Dresden, Berlin, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Munich. Honsa's work is based on continuous deep contact with his beloved nature; its artistic excellence raises it above mere regional significance and importantly contributed to the development of Czech landscape painting. His work is represented in the National Gallery in Prague.