Although the negative for this image was taken in Paris in the summer of 1894 while Stieglitz was on his honeymoon, this print was made and is dated 1896. It was most likely printed for the first exhibition of the newly-constituted Camera Club of New York which he founded in May, 1896. This print may also have been among twenty-one "Early Prints" of the one hundred and forty-five prints of Stieglitz's work exhibited at the Anderson Galleries in 1921. It was probably in that same year that it was given to Stieglitz's brother Dr. Leopold Stieglitz, and it is unlikely that it was ever exhibited again. Stieglitz must have been impressed with Paris being the capital of the art world at the time, and could not have envisioned his monumental role in the dramatic shift to New York City some 50 years later.