Léon Lhermitte

With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, September 1885;

George I. Seney (1826-1893), New York;

His sale, American Art Association, New York, 11-13 February 1891, lot 196 (as Noonday Rest);

With Boussod, Valadon & Cie;

With Knoedler & Cie;

Sale, American Art Association, New York, 11-14 April 1893, lot 380 (as Noonday Rest);

Where acquired by William S. Kimball, Rochester, New York;

C. H. Godfrey;

With Knoedler & Cie (no. 4468);

With Williams & Son, London (by June 1974);

With J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York;

Where acquired by the present owner.

B. Hillier (ed.), Connoisseur, May 1974, vol. 186, p. 312, illustrated.

M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: catalogue raisonné, Paris 1991, no. 41, p. 104, illustrated (as Les Moyettes; Dit À Tort: Repos Pendant La Moisson).

M. M. Hamel, A French Artist: Léon Lhermitte, Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University 1974, C142, cat no. 139, illustrated.

London, Williams & Son, Exhibition of French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, 3-15 June 1974, no. 28

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Léon Lhermitte: An International Exhibition, 21 September-10 November 1974, no. 26