Breton Fishermen and Their Families

Inscription: Signed (lower left): t Ribot.

Ernest Cronier, Paris (until d. 1905; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 4–5, 1905, no. 66, as "Les Pêcheurs bretons"); Mrs. Edward Spencer (Catherine D.) Wentworth, Paris, later Santa Barbara, Calif. (by 1937–d. 1948)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Van Gogh as Critic and Self-Critic," October 30, 1973–January 6, 1974, no. 32 (as "Breton Fishermen").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Family Life," March 15–May 19, 2002, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Street," March 5–May 27, 2013, no catalogue.

THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT, BY TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION BY THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.

Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 84.

Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, XIX Century. New York, 1966, p. 138, ill., call it "Breton Fishermen" and state that it must have been painted at either Brest or Trouville after 1880; note the influence of Ribera.

Charles S. Moffett. Van Gogh as Critic and Self-Critic. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1973, unpaginated, no. 32, dates it probably after 1880; describes it as depicting "the coarse reality of the peasants' world without a single passage of refined, academically correct painting".

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 432, ill.

Luc Georget in Théodule Ribot (1823-1891): Une délicieuse obscurité. Exh. cat., Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. Paris, 2021, p. 124, ill. p. 16 (color, cropped).

Dominique Lobstein in Théodule Ribot (1823–1891): Une délicieuse obscurité. Exh. cat., Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. Paris, 2021, p. 172, ill. p. 16 (color, cropped).

This work may not be lent, by terms of its acquisition by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.