Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1894 no. 262.

Marie Krabbe was born Boesen and as a young woman she was a student of her uncle, the Danish painter August Wilhelm Boesen (1812–1857), and in 1861 of the flower painter Emma Thomsen (1820–1897). In 1861, Marie Boesen married Christopher Krabbe (1833–1913), a law graduate, editor and later a member of parliament and minister. Between 1862 and 1874, they had four children together. After not having worked much with painting for a number of years, Marie Krabbe went to Paris in the winter months of the early 1890s to further her education under the Belgian artist Alfred Stevens (1823–1906) and the French artist Édouard Krug (1829–1901). The present painting was probably painted in Paris - the influence of the French school is clearly visible in her way of treating light, shadow and colours and in her choice of subject.