Jean-François Millet

Vente J.-F. Millet, Hotel Druot, Paris, 10-11 May 1875, lot 63, bought by Richard Hearn on behalf of Martin Brimmer, Boston

Martin Brimmer, bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1876, and deaccessioned by the museum, 1950

With Hazlitt Gallery, London, by May 1955;

Acquired from the above by Commander William Seagrave, Uckfield, Sussex, by May 1955;

Thence by descent.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (permanent collection from 1876-1939)

London, Wildenstein, J.-F. Millet, 1969, no. 40

Paris, Grand Palais, Jean-François Millet, 1976, no. 174

L. Soullié, Les Grands peintres aux ventes publiques, Jean-François Millet, Paris, 1900, p. 100.