Pierre Miquel. "1824–1874." Le Paysage français au XIXe siècle. 2, Maurs-la-jolie, 1975, p. 83, ill. (color).
Vincent Pomarède and Blandine Lesage in Achille-Etna Michallon. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1994, p. 180, no. 38, as "Étude de hêtre".
Asher E. Miller in "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2008–2010." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 68 (Fall 2010), pp. 47–49, ill. (color).
Esther Bell. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Thaw Collection." Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection. New York, 2011, p. 135, no. 101, ill. (color), calls it "Beech Tree" and dates it about 1820.
John House. "Impressionism and the Open-Air Oil Sketch." Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection. New York, 2011, p. 88, fig. 70 (color).
