Peasant Family at a Well

1. Victor Henri de Rochefort-Lucay, Paris by 1905 [according to Rochefort 1905]. Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris; sold Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 16–18, 1907 no. 223, as Le Nain (les frères), for Fr 2,800 [price according to annotated copies of the sale catalogue in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York, and the Bibliothèque d’Art et d’Archéologie, Paris]. Ehrich Galleries, New York [according to registrar’s records]. Osvald Sirén, New York; sold by Sirén to the Art Institute, 1923.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 221, as Louis Le Nain.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 145, as Louis Le Nain.
• Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, French Art of Two Centuries, 1939–40, no cat.
• Toledo Museum of Art, The Brothers Le Nain, October 1947, no. 16, as school of Le Nain.
• Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, Héritage de France: French Painting 1610–1760, January 4–February 4, 1962, no. 44, as School of Le Nain; traveled to The Art Gallery of Toronto, February 16–March 18, 1962; exhibition also traveled to The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October 6–November 6, 1961; Québec, Le Musée de la Province de Québec, November 16–December 16, 1961.
• University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Art Gallery, 1965, no cat.
• Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Les Frères Le Nain, October 3, 1978–January 8, 1979, no. 76.

• Henri Rochefort, “La Collection de M. Henri Rochefort,” Les Arts 4, 43 (July 1905), p. 14, ill.
• “La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: Mouvement des arts – Collection Ch. Sedelmeyer, première vente,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3rd ser., 37 (1907), suppl. 194, no. 21.
• London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures by the Brothers Le Nain (London, 1910), pp. 15, 27.
• W[illiam] A. P[reyer], “A Painting by the Brothers Le Nain,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 8 (1923), pp. 82–84, ill.
• “Chicago Institute Acquires a Work by the Brothers Le Nain,” Art News 22, 21 (1924), p. 6, ill.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), pp. 43, 143, no. 59, ill.
• R[eginald] H[oward] Wilenski, French Painting (Boston, 1931), p. 49; rev. ed., 1949, p. 46.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 39, 160, ill.
• Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), pp. 29, 61, ill.
• George Isarlo, “Les Trois Le Nain et leur suite,” La Renaissance 21, 1 (1938), p. 34, fig. 52.
• Assia Visson, “Les Le Nain au Toledo Museum of Art,” Arts, beaux-arts, literature 142 (November 28, 1947), p. 3.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 165.

The Annunciation

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Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin

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Christ on the Living Cross

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Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist

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Joseph Sold by his Brothers

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Polynesian Woman with Children

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Christ Receiving the Children

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

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