Literature

Cornelia Homburg (ed.), Van Gogh, New Haven and London, 2012, fig. 52

Provenance

1868-1875, acquired from the artist by Emile Gavet, Paris (commissioned in 1867)
11-12 June 1875, sold at Gavet Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, nr. 94, and bought by Carlin
by 1917, Quincy Adams Shaw, Boston
1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy A. Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, accession date 29 March 1917

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 17.1524

Other works by Jean-François Millet

Feeding the Children
c. 1860

Peasant and Donkey Returning Homewards at Dusk
1866

The Evening Prayer
1857-59

The Strawstacks
c. 1867-68

Narcissi and Violets
c. 1867