Ellen Poulsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Jens Juel, 1991, no. 575, ill. p. 363. According to Ellen Poulsen, Jens Juel has painted another similar portrait of Lovise Malling.

Literature: Thyge Christian Fønss-Lundberg and Anna Schram Vejlby, “Jens Juel. En europæisk mester”, 2021, ill. p. 325 and mentioned p. 316 (in Danish): “And finally there are the quiet, almost poetic portraits of the Crown Prince and Mrs. Malling (...). Juel's true mastery as a portraitist was this ability to depict the many stages of human life through objective registration rather than subjective interpretation”.

Provenance: Knabstrup, where two of her daughters married landowner Willars Knudsen Lunn. Cathrine Louise died in childbirth in 1801, the other daughter Henriette Caroline Eleonore died in 1872. The painting hung in Knabstrup until the great-grandson Ove Lunn inherited it, his stepson Vøgg Lunn sold it to the current owner's father, who descended from Villars Lunn. The painting has thus always been in the same family's possession, and the painting has never been for sale.

Lovise Henriette Hersleb Malling was married the first time to assessor Jacob Hersleb (d.1785); married second time in 1787 to Iver Malling (1744–1806), cabinet secretary to Crown Prince Frederik (1763–1805).