L. de Fourcaud. "Le Salon de 1884 (2e article)." Gazette des beaux-arts, 2nd ser., 29 (June 1, 1884), pp. 469–70, comments that "on ne rêve pas un plus beau paysage, plus riche de tons et plus vrai".
"Salon de 1884." Le Gaulois-Salon: Supplément du Gaulois (April 30, 1884) [p. 2].
Georges Lafenestre. Le Livre d'or du Salon de peinture et de sculpture. Paris, 1884, p. 46.
Paul Mantz. "Le Salon. IV." Le Temps (May 25, 1884), p. 1.
André Michel. "Le Salon de 1884. III." L'Art 36 (1884), p. 212.
Montezuma [Montague Marks]. "My Note Book." Art Amateur 11 (July 1884), p. 29.
Joséphin Péladan. "Salon de 1884. Peinture." L'Artiste 54 (June 1884), p. 444.
E. V. "The Paris Salon." Art Amateur 11 (July 1884), p. 37, as "Vintage".
J. Noulens. "Le Salon: Histoire, Genre. IV." La Presse (May 22, 1885) [p. 2].
"The Fine Arts: Further Gifts to the Metropolitan Museum." Critic (May 7, 1887), p. 232, as "The Vintage"; calls it a "thoroughly modern work" and notes that it has been on view at the Schaus gallery.
Montezuma [Montague Marks]. "My Note Book." Art Amateur 17 (June 1887), p. 3.
Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer. "The Metropolitan Museum. The Society of American Artists [part 1]." Independent 39 (May 12, 1887), p. 6, as "Vintage".
R. H. "Some Living French Painters." Illustrated London News 92 (April 28, 1888), p. 464, as "Grape-Harvest".
William Sharp. "The Art Treasures of America (Concluded.)." Living Age, 7th ser., 1 (December 3, 1898), p. 606, as "The Vintage".
Arthur Hoeber. The Treasures of The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. New York, 1899, p. 86, remarks that its "color, too, is full of charm, and the execution is faultless".
W. C. Brownell. French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. New York, 1901, p. 97, ill. opp. p. 100.
Henry Marcel. La Peinture française au XIXe siècle. Paris, 1905, p. 308.
Charles Sterling, and Margaretta M. Salinger. "XIX Century." French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2, New York, 1966, p. 205, ill., note that it is also called "Gathering in the Grapes"; state that William Schaus, the art dealer, purchased it at the Salon of 1884.
Mary Michele Hamel. Léon Lhermitte. Exh. cat., Paine Art Center & Arboretum. Oshkosh, 1974, pp. 17, 28, 37, pl. 19, asserts that in this picture and "Le Vin" (1885; Musée des beaux-arts, Reims; Le Pelley Fonteny 1991, no. 40) Lhermitte alludes to the figure of Venus in peasant dress; lists a drawing, two charcoals, and one pastel that are related to our painting [see Ref. Le Pelley Fonteny 1991].
Kitty Schreurs. Eine Auswahl bedeutender Ölgemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen französischer Meister des 19.Jahrhunderts aus unserer Kollektion 1981/1982. Exh. cat., Galerie an der Königsallee, Düsseldorf. [1981], unpaginated, under no. 18, reproduces the charcoal study for this painting (1883; Collection Maurice Stenberg, Chicago; Le Pelley Fonteney 1991, no. 414).
Monique Le Pelley Fonteny. Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925). Paris, 1991, pp. 36, 101–2, 398, 466, 504, 513, no. 39, ill., calls it "Les Vendanges"; notes that when Schaus bought this painting at the Salon of 1884, he was the first American dealer to acquire a work by Lhermitte; mentions the influence of Bastien-Lepage; catalogues three studies for this picture (nos. 412, 413, 414).
