Provenance: Private Collection since circa 1924

This work was completed between 1893 and 1898 when at the age of twenty two Goldie enrolled at the cosmopolitan Académie Julian, Paris. For four years he studied under the supervision of eminent Salon painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The academic training Goldie received at the Académie indicate that this painting is a life study of a class model, or alternatively a detailed study of an existing work.