H. Chr. Christensen, A Catalogue Raisonnné of the Works of L.A. Ring, 1910, no. 458.

Exhibited: The National Gallery of Denmark & Randers Kunstmuseum, “L.A. Ring. På kanten af verden”, 2006–2007, no. 57.

Literature: Peter Hertz, “Maleren L.A. Ring”, 1934, mentioned p. 337.

The National Gallery of Denmark & Randers Kunstmuseum, “L.A. Ring. På kanten af verden”, 2006–2007, ill. pp. 107 and 239. Mentioned pp. 107–108 and 239. Here, the painting is described i.a. as follows (in Danish): “The lush, sun-glittering landscape with a stream encircled by yellow marsh marigold winding through green vast meadows under a bright blue sky seems in many ways atypical for Ring. He is the painter of autumn, winter and early spring and has a particular fondness for motifs, where gentle grey weather tones dominate in combination with mild local colours. Here, the landscape is seen in the light of early summer, where the colours are still fresh and the sun is high in the sky.” (p. 239). In October 1898, L.A. Ring moved with his wife Sigrid to Frederiksværk, where they rented a closed grocery store called “Granly”. They lived in Frederiksværk until the spring of 1902, and during this period Ring painted several landscapes from the area and focused especially on the blooming nature: “The blooming motifs from around 1900 are often seen as an expression of the artist's newfound happiness with his wife Sigrid and children.” (p. 237).

Henrik Wivel, “Det glasklare hjerte. En biografi om L.A. Ring”, 2020, mentioned p. 180, ill. pp. 166–167, 180. Wivel writes, among other things (in Danish): “Ring could [...] follow the stream with his gaze into the landscape as in ‘A stream through fields with yellow Marsh Marigold' [...], where the delicate, red-violet soil and the finest yellow flowers testify that love is at work in the artist. He loves the landscape and the woman he has chosen to experience it with. [...] Ring followed not only the roads in his art, but also the waterways, where streams wound their way through the meadows in painting after painting, bordered by flowering vegetation and with the sky as a mirror in the water, so that the landscape became translucent like light in light. In the almost three years that the couple lived in Frederiksværk, Ring painted some of his most distinct renditions of the Danish landscape, characterised by vivid, local colours with an almost engraved sharpness in the details [...].” (pp. 179–181).

Provenance: Mrs Galathea Hertz (1910). The estate auction of merchant S. Hertz and Galathea Hertz 24 September 1929 no. 67, illustrated.