As of 2023, the painting is on display at the Malmö Art Museum in Sweden.

In his Christmas letters to his family in Sweden from 1877 Hill recounts the motifs that had occupied him, as well as those he wanted to paint in the future, including a cemetery with a man standing in front of a cross adorned with a wreath.

Critic Reidar Ekner describes the figure as "extremely alone, isolated in the universe.

[1] It belonged to one of the 18 paintings that Hill wanted to show at the World exhibition in Paris in 1878.

The painting reportedly inspired the poem "Portrait-Elegy 1977" by Swedish modernist poet Erik Lindegren.