Literature: Leila Krogh: “Fiktion & Virkelighed - J.F. Willumsens fotografier” (Fiction & Reality - the photographs of J.F. Willumsen), J.F. Willumsen's Museum, Frederikssund, 1995, the work mentioned, photographic studies and a smaller sketch of the motif ill. p. 72–79. Provenance: Painter Kaare Øijord (1921–2016), Norway. Acquired from J. F. Willumsen's widow, Michelle Bourret. Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.

“Before J.F. Willumsen in May 1900 went to America, he worked on a motif from Langelinie in Copenhagen, which he never finished. There are 32 known photographs, some drawn studies and a sketch of the entire motif (Victor Petersen’s Willumsen Collection). He had imagined a watercolour, which he would complete during the final month, before he was to travel ”(Leila Krogh p. 73 based on a letter from the artist to his wife Edith, March 22, 1900).