Signature: lower right: J.F. Millet

Inscription: Verso: Two vertical lines in Conté crayon; the word: Wery (?); faint sketch of a reaper

Jean Dollfus, sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3/4/1912, no. 82; Knoedler and Co.New York; Adolph Lewisohn, New York, to Sam Lewisohn; Donor: Gift of Sam A. Lewisohn , 1943

Exposition Internationale Universelle de 1900, Oeuvres d'Art Exposition Centenniale de l'Art Français. Paris, 1899-1900, cat. no. 1194.

Jean François MIllet Exh. cat., Paris, Grand Palais; London, Hayward Gallery. Paris and London, 1975-76, Paris cat., no. 76; London cat., no. 51, cat. no. 76;51, ill.

Stephen Bourgeois The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculptures. New York, 1928, p. 58, ill.

"Nineteenth century French drawings". Nineteenth century French drawings, San Francisco, 1947, cat. no. 47.

Jacques Fryszman "French Drawings from the Metropolitan Museum at the Louvre". CXV, no. 849, December. London, 1973, p. 836.

Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des musées nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 October, 1973-7 January 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 64, ill.

Alexandra R. Murphy, Richard Rand, Brian T. Allen, James Ganz, Alexis Goodin Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light. New Haven and London, 1999, cat. no. 37, p. 69, ill.