The painting has previously been known as ”A Negro Girl with two Children” (1905), “Negress” (1920) and “Negro Girl” (2003). Justina is equipped with a range of symbols, such as the “Madras”-patterned headdress. Originally Scottish, the pattern was also used in India and the Caribbean. The headdress is an example of the clothes devel-oped by the Afro-Caribbeans to signal their freedom, a contrast against the restrictions on the garments worn by enslaved peo-ple. The artist’s brother, Otto Marstrand, was Consul of St. Thomas. By having Justina dressed in a white dress with a red scarf, resembling the Danish national flag, he might have sig-nalled opposition to the idea of selling off the Danish West Indies, an option discussed in those years. What would be Justina’s own history? Does she not have a last name? Where was she during the emancipation in 1848 and during “The Fireburn” riots led by women in 1878?

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      ("Ret con amore har han aabenbart 1856 malt det morsomme Billede af to Smaapiger i blaattærnede Kjoler, Marstrands vestindiske Niecer, der spadserer med deres Barnepige, en Negerinde med gul Turban, hvid Kjole og zinnoberrødt Sjal, i et Landskab, hvor Smaapigernes Forældre og Broder følger dem i nogen Afstand."), 330 (afb., kaldet "En negerpige med to børn. Portrætter af Otto Marstrands børn og deres barnepige.")
   Th. Oppermann, Wilhelm Marstrand: Hans Kunst og Liv i Billeder og Tekst (1920), p. 35 (afb., kaldet "Negerpigen."), 42 ("Her spiller det sjælelige en underordnet Rolle; til Gengæld afspejler det, bedre end noget andet af Marstrands Arbejder, hans Evne til at mestre rene og enkle Formers monumentale Skønhed. Ret af Hjertet har han frydet sig over den Formens Storhed og Simpelhed, som aabenbarer sig i den unge Piges primitive Træk, og han har været revet med af Skikkelsens elegante Linier, saa vel som af Nakkens og Turbanens kække Sammenspil. Ogsaa koloristisk har han været begejstret. Negerindens mørke Lød, hendes gule Turban, hvide Kjole og røde Sjal staar pragtfuldt sammen.")
   Otto Marstrand, Maleren Wilhelm Marstrand (2003), p. 143f (kaldet "Negerpige på spadseretur i Frederiksberg Have med den vestindiske Marstrandfamilie").

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