The painting has been examined first hand by the Wildenstein Institute, and the work will become part of the forthcoming “Pissarro Digital Catalogue Raisonné”. Expertise from the Wildenstein Institute, signed by Elisabeth Gorayeb and dated New York, 7 November 2017, is included.

Provenance: Gift from Camille Pissarro to Hermann Meier Hjernøe (1823–1877), procurator in Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, The Danish West Indies, today The American Virgin Islands, before 1855, where Camille Pissarro leaves the islands.

From here, inherited by Hjernøe’s son Carl Christian Hjernøe (1871–1913), a Danish poet, dramatist and actor born on St. Thomas. After his father's death in 1877, Carl returns to Denmark with his family.

From here, the painting is inherited by Carl’s daughter Ragna Bjørn, née Hjernøe (1898–1985), the current owner's grandmother.

The painting has, therefore, never been sold before.

Hermann Meier Hjernøe was born in Assens, and after his confirmation in 1837 he moves to Copenhagen to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. For medical reasons and after consulting with his doctor, he travels to the Danish West Indies in 1851. Since the stay proves to be very beneficial to his health, he decides to settle permanently on St. Thomas. From 1855 to 1861 he is in Copenhagen to obtain an education as a lawyer. In 1861 he returns to St. Thomas as a deputy procurator, and later in 1863 he becomes procurator. He dies in 1877 and is buried at the Danish cemetery in Charlotte Amalie.