As a young girl Agnes Rambusch went to a private school directed by the daughters of C. W. Eckersberg, Julie and Emilie, and at an early age she developed an interest in art and began attending art exhibitions. She received her training at The drawing- and arts and crafts school for women (Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinder) from 1878 until finishing in 1885. Hereafter she was a student of P.S. Krøyer until 1886 and after that of the artist Harald Slott-Møller. She married Harald Slott-Møller in 1888 and the couple went on a combined honeymoon and study tour to Italy and Paris in 1888–1889. Slott-Møller's interest in Danish myths and legends nurtured her circle of motifs and she also sought inspiration in medieval art, in the arts and crafts movement, and in the art of the preraphaelites. Using knights and maids as noble rolemodels she sought to create art to hold a mirror up to the present time.

The present work depicts the manor Bangsbo near Frederikshavn, which in the period 1891–1909 was owned by Johan Knudsen. He gathered around him some of the greatest writers and intellectuals of the time, including the authors Herman Bang and Gustav Wied, and Bangsbo therefore became a central gathering point for the cultural personalities of the time, including L. A. Ring, Peter and Betty Nansen, Thorvald Bindesbøll, and Harald and Agnes Slott-Møller. The “Lion Fountain” in the foreground of the painting is designed by Thorvald Bindesbøll.

Presumably exhibited: Den Frie Udstillingsbygning: “Malerier, Skulpturer og Tegninger samt Arbejder af dekorativ Art udførte af Agnes Slott-Møller og Harald Slott-Møller i Aarene 1885–1908”, 1909 no. 69 with the title “Bangsbo. Maaneskin” (Bangsbo. Moonlight).