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The painting depicts young nobleman, Marcus Pauli Holst von Schmidten, dashing off to school. The school in question was Christianis Institut, which focused greatly on movement and exercise. The school did pioneering work to give children the opportunity to play and do athletics in the open air. The school's playground was the first to be built in Denmark.
The young nobleman is seen running on his way to school; his school is glimpsed in the background. The boy's figure is simultaneously in movement and in balance. It is one of few examples of a figure in movement in Juel's mature work. An engraving after the American painter Gilbert Stuart's The Skater (Washington, National Gallery of Art) may have served as inspiration for this painting.
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