Exhibited: Ordrupgaard, “Vilhelm Hammershøi - En retrospektiv udstilling”, 1981 no. 5. Illustrated in the catalogue p. 39 and described p. 162 as follows (in Danish): “The artist painted some of his first landscape studies with his maternal uncle, William Rentzmann, who owned Haraldskær paper factory near Vejle. According to Svend Hammershøi's inscription - see below - the watercolour should have been executed approx. 1880–82, but Bramsen (1918) dates a couple of painted landscapes from this area to 1883. It is also known from letters that the artist was in Jutland in 1882. Inscription on the backing: Painted by Vilhelm Hammershøi / Haraldskjær near Vejle. ca. 1880–82 / Svend Hammershøi”. The backing, mentioned in the catalogue, no longer exists.

Provenance: Art dealer Chr. Larsen, his auction Kunsthallen 219, 1957 no. 225.