Exhibition label from Charlottenborg on the stretcher. In 1899 she exhibited “Forår i april” (springtime in April) as no. 72 and “Forår i maj” (springtime May) as no. 73. The year 1900 she exhibited “Mellem stubbene i Folehave Skov” (Between the stumps in Folehave Forest) as no. 73. All motifs match the present painting.

Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 627, 1996 no. 45, ill. p. 34.

The flower artist Anthonie Eleonore (Anthonore) Tscherning was taught by her mother Eleonore Tscherning (1817–1890) and later by Emma Thomsen (1820–1897) and O.D. Ottesen (1816–1892), all of whom were flower artists. After her marriage to the philologist Richard Christensen (1843–1876), in 1871 she is known as Anthonore Christensen. She went on several study tours to Italy, Schwitzerland, Germany, France (Paris) and Greece, and she, herself, later taught members of the Danish and Greek royal family the art of painting. Anthonore Christensen's motifs of forest beds and wild flowers growing in a field as in the present painting are often characterized by a natural, less atificial expression than the opulent bouquets and the decorative cut flowers displayes on stone sills, we see in works by earlier flower painters.