Edvard Munch

Heinrich Knudsen

Thence by descent to his niece Mrs Rasch

Egil Offenberg

Sotheby's, 1967

Nils Erik Ström, Gothenburg, by 1973

Josef Kovar, Hamburg, by 1978

Hans Antonsson, by 1986

Sale: Christie's, Amsterdam, 3 December 2002, lot 208 (as Early morning river landscape)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch, Complete Paintings, Catalogue raisonné, 1898-1908, vol. I, London, 2009, p. 51, no. 7 (as Landscape with trees and water)

This early landscape is dated to 1880 when Munch, just seventeen, had given up his studies at the technical college and decided to become a painter, enrolling at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania.