Winslow Homer

signed Winslow Homer and dated 1881 (lower left)

14 by 19 ⅞ in. 

35.6 by 50.5 cm.

Joseph S. Bigelow, Boston (probably acquired by 1882)

Mary Bryant Bigelow, Cohasset (acquired by descent from the above)

Doll & Richards, Inc., Boston, 1934

John S. Ames, Boston (acquired in 1934)

Anne McKinley Filley, North Easton (wife of the above; acquired by descent from the above in 1959)

Rebecca S. Ames Thompson, Maryland (daughter of the above; acquired as a gift from the above)

Wildenstein & Co., Inc. New York (in 1972)

Ivor and Anne Massey, Richmond, Virginia (acquired in 1972)

Christie's, New York, 4 December 1997, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby's, New York, 11 December 2020, lot 16 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Boston, J. Eastman Chase, Watercolors, 1882

Boston, Copley Society, Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, 1921, no. 11, p. 4 (titled Fisher-girls in Brittany)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Exhibition of Works by Winslow Homer and John La Farge, 1936

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1958-59, no. 107 (New York) and no. 97 (Boston)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Winslow Homer, 1973, no. 97, p. 138

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winslow Homer, 1995-96, no. 109, p. 202, illustrated in color

Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, Winslow Homer, American Artist: His World and His Work, New York, 1961, p. 64, illustrated

Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. IV.1, New York, 2008, no. 1062, p. 65, illustrated and p. 157