Exhibited: Den Frie Udstilling,“Bertha Wegmanns separatudstilling”, 1911 no. 92 entitled “Dame ved Tebordet” (Woman at the the tea table). The Hirschsprung Collection and The Skovgaard Museum, “Bertha Wegmann. At male på mange sprog”, 2022 (without number).

Literature: Gertrud Oelsner and Lene Bøgh Rønberg (ed), “Bertha Wegmann”, 2022, ill. p. 38 and ill. p. 192. The photo on p. 192 is from the exhibition in 1911, where the present painting hangs in the middle on the right wall. (See photo).

Provenance: Given as a present in the 1920s to the current owner's grandmother. The grandmother was also a pianist like Hanna Lucia Bauck.

Hanna Lucia's sister, the Swedish painter Jeanna Bauck (1840–1926), was the connecting link between Bertha Wegmann and the Swedish pianist Hanna Lucia Bauck (1845–1926).

Jeanna and Bertha met in Munich in 1871, where they had both gone to study. Munich at this time had many exhibition opportunities and a thriving art market. Women could not enter the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich either, but the academy's teachers taught the many female artists privately. The two women became very close and lifelong friends. They lived together, shared a studio and they travelled together to Paris many times, where they among other places studied at the Académie Trélat, a private academy for women, and exhibited at the Salon de Paris.

Both Bertha Wegmann and Jeanna Bauck have portrayed Hanna Lucia Bauck several times.