It was painted between 1809 and 1810 in Dresden and was first shown together with the painting "The Monk by the Sea" in the Berlin Academy exhibition of 1810.
Работа была впервые показана вместе с другой картиной Каспара Фридриха «Монах у моря» () в Берлинской Академии художеств во время выставки 1810 года.