Karl Madsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of J. Th. Lundbye no. 208, mentioned p. 243.

Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1847 no. 117.

Exhibited in connection with collecting money for the reconstruction of Frederiksborg Castle in 1860 no. 230.

“Den nordiske Industri- og Kunstudstilling”, (The Nordic Industrial and Art Exhibition) 1872 no. 138.

Kunstforeningen, “Works of Johan Thomas Lundbye” 1893 no. 115.

Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Ribe Kunstmuseum og Skovgaardmuseet i Viborg, “Lundbye og Kierkegaard”, 2013–2014 no. 31, reproduced p. 118.

Provenance: At the exhibition in 1847 Lundbye gave the painting away to a Mr. Gerson. Chamberlain Otto Bull. Merchant G. Hansen. Stockbroker E. Aug. Bloch, his auction in 1920, no. 47, reproduced p. 15. The author and art collector Leif Hasle.

Karl Madsen, “Johan Thomas Lundbye 1818–1848”, 1949, p. 243–244, describes Lundbye’s great expectations for the painting: “Almost jubilantly he (Lundbye) announces to Høyen on 4 May that the painting is underway. ”Full of the greatest hopes, rich on the most glorious pleasures of art, with the beloved home in the background as a golden radiance – more beautiful than the quiet evening sky on Claude Lorrain’s small 8-edged painting from Palazzo Sciarra in Rome – I seize the pen this evening to tell you the reason for this joy. I longed so to rummage through the delightful fat oil colours that I, after sending my large, splendid Roman paintbox home, have once again acquired everything that I need in order to paint, and this at a time when every penny is important to me. But I move on, for I have during the past five days been painting on a small piece, which hardly has any hindrance in becoming a masterpiece; whether it will become this, is another question."

Lundbye’s enthusiastic expectations for the painting and its reception did not correspond with the rest of the world's eventual reaction. The painting was not sold at the exhibition in 1847, where Lundbye ended up giving it away.