Jules Breton

signed and dated lower right: Jules Breton 1870

canvas: 63 by 50 in. 160 by 127 cm.

framed: 65 by 52 ½ in. 165 by 133.5 cm.

Hector Brame, Paris

Goupil & Cie, Paris 16 October 1873 (no. 8444, acquired from the above)

Everard, London, 1 Paril 1874 (acquired from the above)

Samuel Dennis Warren, Boston

Susan Cornelia Warren, Boston

Her sale: American Art Association, New York, 19 January 1903, lot 59 (as Brittany Peasant)

M. Knoedler & Co Inc, New York (acquired from the above, no.10150)

V.G. Fischer Art Company, Washington, 25 March 1903 (acquired from the above)

M. Knoedler & Co Inc, New York, November 1905 (no.10834, acquired from the above)

James McLean, New York, February 1907 (acquired from the above)

Mrs A.T. McLean

Her sale: Sotheby’s Parke Bernett, New York, 21-22 January 1938, lot 151 or 152 (as Brittany Idyl)

F. Schnittjer & Son, New York (purchased at the above sale)

Their sale: Sotheby’s Parke Bernett, New York, 10 – 11 February 1943, lot 187

Maurice Goldblatt (purchased at the above sale)

Private Collection, Cleveland Ohio (by 1983)

Possibly, Marius Vachon, Jules Breton, Paris, 1899, p. 143, 1870 as ‘Tricoteuse assise sous un arbre’

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres et Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, 1999, vol. 2, p. 791, listed

Hollister Sturges ed., Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Nebraska & New York, 1982, p. 90, mentioned

Annette Bourrut Lacouture, Jules Breton Painter of Peasant Life, New Haven & London, 2002, p. 151, mentioned