Probably acquired Charles, fourth Duke of Rutland (1754-1787): Belvoir Castle, England, in the last third of the 18th century

Possibly identical with a painting entitled ”Peasants at the door of a cottage, capital,” sale, London, Christie’s, 27-29 February 1772, no. 60, acquired by ”May” for 25 guineas

[M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1936]

Acquired by the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1941

1910, London. Burlington Fine Arts Club. ”Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures Including Examples of the Works of the Brothers Le Nain and Other Works of Art,” no. 30, pl. 9

1923, Paris. Galerie Louis Sambon. ”Exposition Le Nain: Louis Le Nain (1593-1648): Mathieu Le Nain (1607-1677): au profit de l'œuvre de la préservation contre la tuberculose à Reims,” 15-30 January, no. 1, repr.

1936, New York. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. ”Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Georges de La Tour and The Brothers Le Nain,” 23 November - 12 December, no. 14, repr.

1946, New York. Wildenstein & Co., Inc. ”A Loan Exhibition of French Painting of the Time of Louis XIlIth and Louis XIVth,” 9 May - 1 June, no. 28, repr.

1947, City Art Museum of St. Louis. ”40 Masterpieces: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings from American Museums,” 6 October - 10 November, no. 26, repr.

1950-1951, Philadelphia Museum of Art. ”Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Masterpieces of Painting,” 4 November 1950 - 1 February 1951, no. 46, repr.

1951, Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. ”French Painting (1100-1900):” 18 October - 2 December, no. 52, repr.

1951, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. ”Old Master Paintings from California Museums,” August, no. 2, repr.

1953, Reims. Musée des Beaux-Arts. ”Les Le Nain,” 30 May - 1 August, no. 7, pl. 5.

1955, Sarasota. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. ”Director's Choice,” 6 February - 4 March, no. 8, repr.

1957, Buffalo. Albright Art Gallery. ”Trends in Painting 1600-1800,” 2 October - 3 November, no. 10, repr.

1958, California. ”California Collects: North and South.” Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, 20 January - 23 February; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 7 March - 6 April, no. 16, repr.

1961, New York. Wildenstein & Co., Inc. ”Masterpieces,” 6 April - 7 May, no. 12, repr.

1961-1962, Montréal-Québec City-Ottawa-Toronto. ”Héritage de France: French Painting 1610-1760.” The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, 6 October - 6 November 1961; Le Musée de la Province de Québec, 16 November - 16 December 1961; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, 4 January - 4 February 1962; The Art Gallery of Toronto, 16 February - 18 March 1962, no. 42, repr.

1966, The Hague-Paris. ”In the Light of Vermeer,” The Hague, Mauritshuis, 25 June - 5 September. ”Dans la lumière de Vermeer: Cinq siècles de peinture,” Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 24 September - 28 November, no. 20, repr.

1978-1979, Denver-New York-Minneapolis. ”Masterpieces of French Art: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.” Denver Art Museum, 26 December 1978 - 18 February 1979; New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., 14 March - 27 April 1979; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 24 May - 1 July 1979, no. 24.

1978-1979, Paris. Grand Palais. ”Les frères Le Nain,” 3 October 1978 - 8 January 1979, no. 35, repr. (details in color on pp. 10 and 205).

1982, Paris-New York-Chicago. ”La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines.” Paris, Grand Palais, 29 January - 26 April. ”France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth Century French Painting in American Collections.” New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26 May - 22 August; The Art Institute of Chicago, 18 September - 28 November, no. 46, repr. on p. 142.

Irvin Eller. The History of Belvoir Castle. London: R. Tyas, 1841, p. 209.

G. F. Waagen. Treasures of Art in Great Britain. 4 vols. London: John Murray, 1854, 3:399.

Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 37 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1907-1950, 23:42.

Paul Jamot. ”Sur les frères Le Nain: II. Essai de classement de l'œuvre des Le Nain.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 5th ser. 5 (April 1922): p. 232.

Raymond Escholier. ”Le secret des Le Nain.” Le Figaro. Supplément Littéraire, no. 199 (28 January 1923).

Paul Jamot. ”Sur quelques œuvres de Louis et de Mathieu Le Nain: A propos d'une exposition.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 5th ser. 7 (January 1923): pp. 32-33.

Paul Jamot. ”Essai de chronologie des œuvres des frères Le Nain.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 5th ser., 7 (March 1923): pp. 158-160, repr. on 159.

Edouard Michel. ”A propos des frères Le Nain.” Gand Artistique (14 July 1923): pp. 169, repr. on 168.

Robert Rey. ”Une exposition de peintures des frères Le Nain.” Beaux-Arts, no. 1 (15 January 1923): p. 5.

Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. ”L’exposition Le Nain.” Echo de Paris (18 January 1923).

Léandre Vaillat. ”Une famille de peintres français du XVIIe siècle: Une exposition d'œuvres des frères Le Nain.” L'Illustration, no. 4168 (20 January 1923): p. 59, repr.

”L'actualité.” L’art et les Artistes (February 1923): p. 201.

Jens Thiis. ”De tre brodre Le Nain. Notater og iagttagelser om deres Billeder.” Kunstmuseets Aarskrift 1921-1923 (1924): p. 304.

Paul Jamot. Les Le Nain. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1929, pp. 40, 43, 48, repr. on 57.

Paul Jamot. ”Antoine, Louis, et Mathieu Le Nain.” Pantheon 4, no. 8 (August 1929): p. 360.

Werner Weisbach. Französische Malerei des XVIl. Jahrhunderts im Rahmen von Kultur und Gesellschaft. Berlin: Heinrich Keller, 1932, p. 362 (note 33).

Paul Fierens. Les Lenain. Paris: Floury, 1933, pp. 28-29, 60, pl. 26.

Arthur Sambon. ”Exposition Le Nain.” Bulletin des Experts d'Art (31 July 1934): p. 15.

Arthur Sambon. ”Les Le Nain.” Bulletin Trimestriel de la Chambre Internationale des Experts d'Art, no. 7 (April - June 1936): no.6.

Georges Isarlo. ”Les trois Le Nain et leur suite.” La Renaissance, no. 1 (March 1938): no. 246.

Vitale Bloch. ”Louis Le Nain and His Brothers.” Burlington Magazine 75, no. 437 (1939): p. 53.

The Art Quarterly (Spring 1941): pp. 154-155, repr. on 148.

Illustrated Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1942, p. 41, repr.

Illustrated Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1944, p. 47, repr.

Illustrated Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1946, pp. 48-49, repr.

Thomas C. Howe. ”Henry K. S. Williams. In Memoriam.” Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 2, no. 3 (June 1944): pp. 20, 21, repr.

Gay D. Davisson. ”The Mildred Anna Williams Collection.” Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 4, nos. 3-4 (July-August 1946): p. 28, repr.

Jean Leymarie. Le Nain. Paris: Braun, 1950, fig. 33.

Vitale Bloch. ”The Le Nains, on the Occasion of the Exhibition at Reims.” Burlington Magazine 95, no. 608 (November 1953): p. 367.

René Druart. ”Les Le Nain au Musée de Reims.” Annales des amis belges du vieux Laon, 1952-1953 (1953): p. 9.

New York Times (20 February 1955): repr.

Paul Fierens. ”La vie paysanne au XVIle siècle: Louis Le Nain: Le Jardin des Arts, no. 33 (July 1957): pp. 550-551, repr. on 547.

François Fosca. ”Trois peintres de la réalité au XVIIe siècle.” Tribune de Genève (22 August 1957): repr.

Harry B. Wehle. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957, no. 14.

Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960, p. 55, repr.

Charles Sterling. ”La peinture française et la peinture espagnole au XVII siècle: Affinités et échanges.” In Velázquez, son temps, son influence: Actes du Colloque tenu à la Casa de Velázquez (7-10 December 1960). Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1963, p. 115, pl. 69.

Albert Chatelet and Jacques Thuillier. French Painting from Le Nain to Fragonard. Geneva: Skira, 1964, p. 21, repr. in color on 19.

Vitale Bloch. Louis Le Nain. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1966, repr. in color pls. 8-9.

William Davenport. Art Treasures in the West. Menlo Park: Lane, 1966, p. 156, repr. on 144.

François Gébelin. L'époque Henri IV et Louis XIII. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1969, p. 72.

John Lough. An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century France. 8th ed. New York: David McKay Company, 1969, fig. 7.

Suzanne Martinet. ”Les frères Lenain.” Unpublished ms., Bibliothèque Laon, 1971, p. 5.

Jean-Luc Bordeaux. ”Un musée français en Californie.” Connaissance des Arts, no. 299 (January 1977): p. 33.

Anthony Blunt. ”The Le Nain Exhibition at the Grand Palais: Le Nain Problems.” Burlington Magazine 120, no. 969 (1978): p. 873.

Vladimir Loewinson-Lessing. The Hermitage: Western European Painting. Leningrad: Aurora Art, 1978, mentioned under no. 49.

Jacques Thuillier. ”Les frères Le Nain et l'inspiration réaliste à Paris au temps de Louis XIII et de Mazarin.” Annuaire du Collège de France (1978-1979): p. 660.

Jean Pierre Cuzin. ”Les frères Le Nain: La part de Mathieu.” Paragone, nos. 349-351 (1979): p. 70 (note 14).

Pierre Rosenberg. ”L'exposition Le Nain: Une proposition.” La Revue de l'Art, no. 43 (1979): p. 94, repr. on 95.

Jacques Thuillier. ”Le Nain: Leçons d'une exposition.” La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, no. 2 (1979): pp. 159, 160, 163, 166 (note 1).

Erich Schleier. ”Die Le Nain Ausstellung in Paris.” Kunstchronik, May 1979, pp. 191-192.

Thomas P. Lee. ”Recently Acquired French Paintings: Reflections on the Past.” Apollo 111, no. 217 (March 1980): p. 213, fig. 2.

Christopher Wright. Italian, French, and Spanish Paintings of the 17th Century. London: Frederick Warne Ltd., 1981, p. 27.

”La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines.” Le Petit Journal des Grandes Expositions, no. 116 (1982): fig. 46.

Jerome Blum. Our Forgotten Past: Seven Centuries of Life on the Land. London: Thames Hudson, 1982, repr.

Ekkehard Mai. ”Ausstellung: La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans collectiones américaines.” Pantheon 40, no. 2 (April - June 1982): p. 153.

William R. Wilson. The Los Angeles Times Book of California Museums. New York: Abrams, 1985, p. 72, fig. 58.

Christopher Wright. Masterpieces of Reality: French 17th Century Painting. Leicester: The Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, 1985, pp. 1, 78.

Christopher Wright. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985, pp. 106, fig. 58, 214, 285.

Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings 1500-1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987, pp. 65-68.