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Oil on canvas. Signed lower right: “JU”. Joža Uprka is one of few Czech artists from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries who accented ethnographic topics in his work; his focus was on a region with which he was intimately familiar – Moravian Slovakia. Although often considered a purely Moravian painter, he had strong ties to Prague, Munich and even Paris. He lived and studied in these cities of art, and he made good use of his experience after he returned to Moravia. His paintings featuring folk and folklore themes garnered attention in Paris, where they were exhibited at the Salon in 1894. This painting of a young woman in folk costume, carrying a glass on a try in one hand and a Habán pitcher in the other, brings together ethnographic realism with elements of modern art, which can primarily be seen here in the execution of the painting.