Woman from Brittany

by descent to their sons Honoré and Potter Palmer

Jules Roederer (died 1888), Le Havre, France

Gabriel P. Weisberg, Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition, exh. cat. (New York: Dahesh Museum of Art, 2002), pp. 82–83, 121, 129, fig. 85.

M. Therese Southgate, “The Cover,” Journal of the American Medical Association 287, 18 (2002), p. 2327 (ill.).

New York, Dahesh Museum of Art at the National Academy Museum, Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of Academic Art, September 10–December 7, 2002, no cat. no; traveled to Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, January 3–February 9, 2003.

Gretchen Wold, “Some notes on The Pardon in Brittany by Dagnan-Bouveret,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 35 (2000), pp. 241–43, fig. 5, p. 245 n. 14, n. 18.

Catalogue des oeuvres de M. Dagnan-Bouveret, exh. cat (Paris: Galerie Maurice Rousseau, 1930), p. 24.

given to the Art Institute, 1922.

“Exhibitions,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 15 (1921), p. 156 (ill.).

his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918)

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, May 10–August, 1910, cat. 15.

sold his sale Galerie George Petit, Paris, 5 June 1891, lot 7 for 5,500 francs as Bretonne [price according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, October 1891 [according to an inventory of the Palmer collection dated December 1921, Archives, Art Institute]

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Dagnan-Bouveret, March 1–24, 1901, cat. 11.

Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 108, 111 (ill.).