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Csók tells the story of the picture in his memoires: it was his family who gave bread to Lord's Suppers in the reformed church of Eger. The religious devotion of peasant girls in their best clothes and the intimate experience fascinated Csók who began to paint the picture on the basis of his Munich sketches. The scene, an unaffected one, was painted in uniform lighting reflected by the whitish-grey walls. The painting is more like a drawing and is delicately detailed. The picture of silverish shade consists of black, white and greyish colours, colours other than these flash only in some smaller patches, e.g. a kerchief of a pattern in light blue, a pink ribbon or a head shawl or the blush on the cheeks. Details painted with a delicate airiness, and embroideries decorating blouses or kerchiefs of girls indicate that the young Csók did not care about technical difficulties. Scattered light without shadows, light colours and details, which he had studied in the works of Bastien Lepage, were characteristic of most Nagybánya painters at this time.
Csók was awarded a golden medal in the Salon, Paris in 1891 and a golden medal of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900.
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