Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 374, 1978 no. 229.

As the daughter of the Golden Age painter Constantin Hansen (1804–1880), Elise Konstantin-Hansen was born into an artist's home, where she was taught by her father from an early age. She later supplemented her training with a period as a student of genre painter Christen Dalsgaard (1824–1907) and Skagen painter Lauritz Tuxen (1853–1927), and in 1885–86 she studied in Paris. In her artistic practice, she immersed herself in crafts, a field she cultivated throughout her life, and both here and in landscape painting, she particularly focussed on bird motifs and wildlife.