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Inscription: Signed (lower left): F Uhde

Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher, New York (until his d. 1917)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Mr. & Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection," March 4–?, 1918, no catalogue.

Syracuse, N.Y. location unknown. "Syracuse State Fair," August 6–September 10, 1934, no catalogue.

Berea, Ky. Berea College. April 15–May 16, 1935, no catalogue.

Hans Rosenhagen. Uhde: Des Meisters Gemälde in 285 Abbildungen. Stuttgart, 1908, pp. xxxvi, 274, 283, ill. p. 93, calls it "Auf dem Heimweg" and dates it 1889; states that its location is unknown.

"The Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 13 (March 1918), p. 61.

Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 98.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 238, ill.

Ulf Küster in Fritz von Uhde: Vom Realismus zum Impressionismus. Ed. Dorothee Hansen. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bremen. Ostfildern, 1998, p. 136, ill., calls it "Auf dem Heimweg," dates it 1889, and states that its location is unknown; notes that it is the first in a succession of paintings depicting figures on a country lane, comparing it to "Schwerer Gang" (1890; Neue Pinakothek, Munich) and "Der Heilige Abend" (1890; collection C. Duisberg); reproduces a chalk sketch for this painting (1889; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich) and identifies the bleak landscape as the Dachau moors.

Dietulf Sander in Fritz von Uhde: Vom Realismus zum Impressionismus. Ed. Dorothee Hansen. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bremen. Ostfildern, 1998, p. 128, notes its similarity to other Uhde paintings with secular themes, such as "Im Herbst" (1890; Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig) and "Am Morgen" (1889–90; Hamburger Kunsthalle).

Küster (1998) identifies the site of this picture as the Dachau moors, which appears in several Uhde paintings from this period. There is a chalk sketch for our painting in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich.