PROVENANCE. Private Collection, Fielding. Fine Art Auction, International Art Centre 26 July 2001. Collection of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa since 2001

ILLUSTRATED. p. 68 Goldie, Roger Blackley, Auckland City Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

EXHIBITED. Goldie, 28 June - 28 October 1997, Cat. no. 23. Auckland City Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Robert McDougall Art Gallery. Te Papa Tongarewa. Art Gallery of New South Wales 2 May - 26 July 1998.

Marlotte, Paris was completed a year after Goldie's arrival in Paris at the age of twenty three. He joined the principal Parisian art school Academie Julian and studied under eminent salon and academic painter William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905) and French orientalist Gabriel-Joseph-Marie-Augustin Ferrier (1847 - 1914). The Academie Julian was a private art school for painting and sculpture. The talented young expatriate took lodgings in the artistic hub of Montparnasse, the heart of the artists' quarter.

Whilst abroad, young Goldie kept his Auckland benefactors appraised of his progress in Paris. The works he sent for the Auckland Society of Arts 1894 exhibition, were awarded a silver medal.