Harald Slott-Møller was a Danish painter and ceramist. At the beginning of his career he painted genre paintings in a Realist manner. In the 1890s, influenced by Italian Gothic art and the work of the English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Slott-Møller turned from Naturalism to a kind of restrained Symbolism, expressed in poetic landscapes populated by isolated figures of women, like the one we present today.
These mysterious paintings invite viewers to interpret the narrative beyond the literal depiction. He also exhibited portraits, often of well-known figures in Danish artistic and literary circles.