Exhibited: On the reverse of the frame an exhibition label from Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, from Exposition Générale Des Beaux-Arts de 1890 and a stamp from Salon de 1890. Münchener Jahres-Ausstellung, Kgl. Glaspalaste, München, 1891 no. 368.

As a young woman, Augusta Dohlmann was taught drawing and painting by the flower painters O.D. Ottesen (1816–1892) and O.A. Hermansen (1849–1897), and in 1878 she went to Paris and continued her studies with the French painter Tony Robert-Fleury (1837–1911). After her debut at Charlottenborg in 1880 she returned to Paris and continued her studies with the painters Gustave Courtois (1852–1923) and Raphaël Collin (1850–1916). With the help of a scholarship and ministerial support, she was able to make further study trips abroad and she also visited the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. Dohlmann also painted portraits and landscapes but became especially known for her flower paintings and exhibited several of her works, also abroad, including at the Salon in Paris and at the World’s Fairs in Paris 1889 and Chicago 1893.

In Paris, Dohlmann was represented by the renowned French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831–1922), who commissioned her paintings. Durand-Ruel was the most important art dealer and gallerist for the French Impressionists.

Alongside her artistic work, Dohlmann was also a great advocate for promoting the educational opportunities of female artists. Among other things, she sat on a committee for the establishment of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Art for Women (Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinder), which opened in 1888, and she was also part of the committee behind the Women's Exhibition (Kvindernes Udstilling fra Fortid og Nutid) in 1895. She became one of the few women of her time who could make a living from painting, and she used part of her earnings to create a scholarship for female flower painters.