Peasant Family at a Well

Toledo Museum of Art, The Brothers Le Nain, October 1947, no. 16, as school of Le Nain.

Assia Visson, “Les Le Nain au Toledo Museum of Art,” Arts, beaux-arts, literature 142 (November 28, 1947), p. 3.

Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, French Art of Two Centuries, 1939–40, no cat.

George Isarlo, “Les Trois Le Nain et leur suite,” La Renaissance 21, 1 (1938), p. 34, fig. 52.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 145, as Louis Le Nain.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 221, as Louis Le Nain.

Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), pp. 29, 61, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 39, 160, ill.

R[eginald] H[oward] Wilenski, French Painting (Boston, 1931), p. 49; rev. ed., 1949, p. 46.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), pp. 43, 143, no. 59, ill.

“Chicago Institute Acquires a Work by the Brothers Le Nain,” Art News 22, 21 (1924), p. 6, ill.

sold by Sirén to the Art Institute, 1923.

W[illiam] A. P[reyer], “A Painting by the Brothers Le Nain,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 8 (1923), pp. 82–84, ill.

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures by the Brothers Le Nain (London, 1910), pp. 15, 27.

sold Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 16–18, 1907 no. 223, as Le Nain (les frères), for Fr 2,800 [price according to annotated copies of the sale catalogue in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York, and the Bibliothèque d’Art et d’Archéologie, Paris]. Ehrich Galleries, New York [according to registrar’s records]. Osvald Sirén, New York

“La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: Mouvement des arts – Collection Ch. Sedelmeyer, première vente,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3rd ser., 37 (1907), suppl. 194, no. 21.

Henri Rochefort, “La Collection de M. Henri Rochefort,” Les Arts 4, 43 (July 1905), p. 14, ill.

Victor Henri de Rochefort-Lucay, Paris by 1905 [according to Rochefort 1905]. Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris

Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 98–101, ill.

Jean Jacques Lévêque, Madame de Sévigné, ou la saveur des mots: 1626–1696 (Paris, 1996), p. 141, ill.

Gregory Martin, “Abraham Willemsens (again): More News of Attributions in Flemish Painting,” Apollo 137 (1993), p. 100 n. 10.

Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings: From the Early Renaissance to the Present Day (London, 1991), vol. 1, p. 243; vol. 2, pp. 62, 518.

Pierre Rosenberg, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, exh. cat. (Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1982), p. 362, appendix no. 9, ill.

Jacques Thuillier, “Le Nain: Leçons d’une exposition,” La Revue du Louvre 29 (1979), pp. 161–62.

Irina Kuznetsova and Evgenia Georgievskaya, French Paintings from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century (New York and Leningrad, 1979), under no. 14.

Anthony Blunt, “The Le Nain Exhibition at the Grand Palais: ‘Le Nain Problems’,” Burlington Magazine 120 (1978), p. 873.

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Les Frères Le Nain, October 3, 1978–January 8, 1979, no. 76.

University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Art Gallery, 1965, no cat.

Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, Héritage de France: French Painting 1610–1760, January 4–February 4, 1962, no. 44, as School of Le Nain; traveled to The Art Gallery of Toronto, February 16–March 18, 1962; exhibition also traveled to The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October 6–November 6, 1961; Québec, Le Musée de la Province de Québec, November 16–December 16, 1961.