H. Chr. Christensen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of L.A. Ring, 1910, no. 404.

Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1899, no. 342.

Provenance: Merchant P. C. Hansen (1910). Manufacturer Volmer Lind, Ikast (1945).

Literature: Peter Hertz, “L. A. Ring 1854–1933”, 1934, mentioned p. 332 and ill. p. 323.

“Kunst i Privateje”, 1945, vol. III, mentioned and ill. p. 363. Here Herman Madsen writes the following about the collection of Volmer Lind and the present painting (in Danish): “It is the considerable collection of works of Laurits Andersen Ring, which is the center of gravity in manufacturer Volmer Lind's collection. Here are good paintings from St. Jørgens Bjerg, spring light over the old sloping houses. But the main work is the large representation from 1899, ”Village street in Vinderød, the butcher sells meat". The four years L. A. Ring spent in Frederiksværk was an artistic fruitful time. He had come to a new milieu and looked with fresh eyes at the new nature and the new people who surrounded him. His stay in Frederiksværk made his colour more light and soft. He often went out to the small village of Vinderød, which possessed precisely the landscape elements, the old houses and the old trees, that he liked to depict. Peter Hertz writes in his book about L. A. Ring that the landscape setting in the painting is painted in situ, while the butcher and his vehicle are inserted from a sketch he had done at the butcher's home by Arresø. It is a picture that shows the strength with which Ring could lure the painterly power of everyday life and give it artistically inspired form. This piece is a superb centerpiece in manufactorer Volmer Lind's Ring collection.”

Ring moved in 1898 to Frederiksværk in the Northern part of Zealand and here he painted several very important works from the surrounding landscape at Roskilde Fjord, Arresø and from the nearby villages such as in the present work from the village of Vinderød.