Elisabeth Fabritius, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Michael Ancher, 1999, no. 365, ill. p. 170.

Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, “Mindeudstilling paa Charlottenborg for Michael Ancher”, 1928 no. 31. Kunstforeningen af 18. novembers jubilæumsudstilling 1842–1942 (the Association of 18 November's Anniversary Exhibition), November 1942 no. 5. Kunstforeningen, “Michael Ancher 1849–1949”, 1949 no. 21.

Literature: “Kunst i Privat Eje”, 1945, volume II, mentioned and illustrated p. 291. Here, the painting owned by merchant Frantz Kragh “Garnet vindes” is compared to the art of Anna Ancher (1859–1935) and emphasized as follows (in Danish): “One can rightly consider Michael Ancher's painting ”Garnet vindes“, painted in 1897, as one of his most significant works. At the Association of 18 November's Anniversary Exhibition in 1942, where it was exhibited, it was evident in the seriousness and authenticity of the figure depiction. The young woman in the dark blue everyday dress and with a vermilion red scarf around her neck is painted with devotion, which gives the depiction a natural monumentality that brings to mind the art of his wife Anna Ancher.”

Provenance: Merchant Frantz Kragh (1945, 1949). Bruun Rasmussen auction 729, 2004 no. 1248, ill. p. 48 (detail) and p. 49.

Dutch interior painting from the 17th century was Ancher's source of inspiration for this type of painting with one or two people in a single interior. Anna and Michael Ancher went on their second major trip abroad in 1885. The first destination was Paris, where they saw, among other things, a memorial exhibition for Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884), and then the journey went via Antwerp, where the couple visited the “Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts”. The last stop on the trip was Amsterdam, where the couple studies painters such as Jan Steen (1626–1679) and Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675).

The local Skagen girl Maren Sofie Olsen was a popular model that Michael Ancher used several times.