A Peasant Woman Picking Fleas off a Dog

?Joseph Schwaabe, Amsterdam; private collection, Swanage, Dorsetshire (sold to Clark); [H. M. Clark, London]; [Steinmeyer-Groot, Paris, until 1911; sold to Kleinberger]; [Kleinberger, Paris and New York, 1911–12; sold to Friedsam]; Michael Friedsam, New York (1912–d. 1931)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Michael Friedsam Collection," November 15, 1932–April 9, 1933, no catalogue.

Wilhelm von Bode. Adriaen Brouwer, sein Leben und seine Werke. Berlin, 1924, p. 59, fig. 28, as by Brouwer.

Wilhelm R. Valentiner in The Michael Friedsam Collection. [completed 1928], p. 24.

Bryson Burroughs and Harry B. Wehle. "The Michael Friedsam Collection: Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 27, section 2 (November 1932), p. 44, believe it is an early Brouwer.

Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 14.

Gerard Knuttel. Adriaen Brouwer: The Master and His Work. The Hague, 1962, pp. 105, 147, 186, fig. 62, as an early Brouwer; argues that it and "A Peasant with a Bird" (MMA 32.100.3) are not pendants.

Walter A. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1984, vol. 1, pp. 11–12; vol. 2, pl. 5, attributes this picture and its pendant, "A Peasant with a Bird" (MMA 32.100.3), to Brouwer; dates the pictures about 1626–27.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 290, ill.

Walter Liedtke. "Toward a New Edition of Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Munuscula Amicorum: Contributions on Rubens and His Colleagues in Honour of Hans Vlieghe. Ed. Katlijne van der Stighelen. Vol. 2, Turnhout, Belgium, 2006, p. 675.

The original oval panel has been inserted into a rectangular panel. The picture has been cradled.

This panel and A Peasant with a Bird (The Met 32.100.3) were painted as pendants.