Masterfully portrait of a girl in the traditional costume was executed by good listed Czech academic painter and illustrator Kamil Vladislav Muttich, baptized Vladislav Jan, used the pseudonym Camil Orfano – Muttich (1873, Prague – 1924, Nymburk). 
He was born in Prague as the son of Jan František Muttich from Černý Kostelec, a native of Kantýn, and his wife Veronika, née Macháčová. In 1892–1894, he studied figure painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with Professor Maxmilián Pirner. His study trip took him to Italy, where his interest in romantic oriental themes became evident. He devoted himself to designing posters, covers, and illustrations for magazines and books, initially in the Art Nouveau style and using the chromolithography technique. In 1899, he illustrated the magazine Podřipská Střela.

At the beginning of World War I, he stayed as a war invalid in a military hospital in Vysoké na Jizerou. In 1915–1916 he was the director of the local theatre association, became an actor, make-up artist and theatre set painter. In the early 1920s he lived in Mladá Boleslav, where he was the founder of the Himalaya ski association. He is the author of the Krkonoše ridge markings, the so-called silent signs. These have been in use since 1923 to the present day. He designed a flag and badge for the Vysoké nad Jizerou Ski Club.  He painted portraits, landscapes and oriental motifs. In addition, he illustrated magazines, painted posters, advertisements, postcards and theater decorations. He worked for larger lithographic companies not only in Bohemia but also in Germany. He was the staff illustrator of the Zlatá Praha magazine. He illustrated, among others, Grandma by Božena Němcová (1897) and The Baroness's Will by Eliška Krásnohorská (1925).

Literature: ThB XXV, 1931, 299 ;  Toman II, 1950.

Inscription: signed with proven monogram lower right.

Technique: pastel on cardboard, original period frame.

Measurements:  unframed w 14" x h 22" (35,5 x 56 cm), framed 16" x 24"(40,5 x 61 cm)

Condition: good.