Elisabeth Fabritius, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Michael Ancher, 1990, no. 407.

Provenance: The estate of miss Helene Philipsen-Prahm. Bruun Rasmussen auction 52, 1954 no. 2. Bruun Rasmussen Vejle auction 107, 2006 no. 5, ill. p. 9.

The painting was probably painted during Anna and Michael Ancher's stay in Paris on the occasion of the World Exhibition in 1889. Despite the important stay, there is almost nothing left that can tell us about the artist couple's time in the French capital. Elisabeth Fabritius writes about the present portrait in “Michael Ancher og det moderne gennembrud 1880–1890”, 1999, p. 224 (in Danish): “There is something unusually awkward about Ancher's portraits from his stay in Paris, where the models sit as if waiting in front of him. This also applies to the full-length study of Anna Ancher in a festive dress, signed 1889 [...]. Perhaps a reflection of the uncertainty that befell Michael Ancher in the foreign metropolis, confronted with such rich art collections and such overwhelming visual art as the French.”