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Together with a painter, a friend from Scotland, Rippl-Rónai was working on a book in 1895. After Rippl-Rónai's lithographs and Knowles' wood cuts had been ready, they found a publisher who had a text written for the illustrations. "... The texts for Knowles' pictures are sad, mine are cheerful, his pictures recall death, mine life, the summer is mine, and the winter is his, my book is light itself, youth, the sun shining and nature, young girls hesitating at the threshold of life and later when they look back at their joung age...," he wrote in one of his letters. Rippl's book came out with the title "Les Vierges" and had four coloured graphics. He did the drawing once more in 1896, the result was a picture in pastel which became popular.. A white-dressed woman wearing a hat with a wide brim which is hanging down is holding a book in her hand. She is walking on green grass, there are trees in the background with red round fruits. There is a garden road with stones in the middle of the picture. The female figure is a white patch with a wide contour. The lines of the contour are curving gracefully, there is not an angular form anywhere, everything is rounded. The green field and the trees consist of small rounded patches with plastic elements of Art Nouveau.
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