Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, “Marstrandudstilling” 1898 no. 431.

Literature: Karl Madsen, “Wilhelm Marstrand”, 1905, mentioned p. 207 and ill. p. 208. Karl Madsen writes about the motif (in Danish): “A favorite subject which Marstrand has treated many times is the descending of a young woman into or ascending from a gondola. Sometimes it is a distinguished lady, followed by a ridiculous husband or priest, sometimes an ordinary girl accompanied by her mother. Her posture and rhythmic movement are always endearingly graceful: with bowed head she lifts her skirt while she lightly supports the arm of an elegant gondolier. The background is soon the dense rows of houses and crooked bridges by the narrow canals, soon a palace by the Canal grande. But everywhere Marstrand has understood well how to compose the figures together with the architectural surroundings”.

“Kunst i Privateje”, vol. 1, 1944, mentioned p. 149, ill. p. 150. Kai Grundt writes (in Danish): “...the young, bashful lady, descending into the gondola, supports herself on the arm of the stout gondolier - a poor man indeed, but with grandezza”.

Provenance: Master builder J.W. Frohne (1898), his auction 1927 no. 24, ill., here acquired by manufactorer Knud and Agathe Neye, their collection, sold at Bruun Rasmussen auction 231, Art of the Danish Golden Age, 1969 no. 22, ill. p. 47.