As a rule, Jitka Hanzlová organizes her work into different series in which she reflects upon her own life experiences and the representation of motifs and places within the history of art. Francesca belongs to the series titled There Is Something I Don’t Know, which the artist produced between 2000 and 2012. In it, Hanzlová does not reflect on the relationship between the subject and the environment. Instead, she seeks a timeless representation of the individual through careful research, linking her models to the tradition of portraiture throughout art history dating back to the Renaissance.

Much like her previous work, these compositions include studied poses whose subsequent effect is an individualized representation of human beings.