Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

1. Henry Probasco (1820-1902), Cincinnati by 1873 [see Cambridge 1873]; his sale, New York, American Art Association, April 18, 1877, lot 94 [according to Paris 1975]. Mrs. Henry Field (née Florence Lathrop, later Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Salon, 1864, no. 1363.
• Chicago, Worlds Columbian Exhibition: Loan Collection: Foreign Masterpieces Owned in the United States, 1893, no. 3063.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat 250.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, June 1- November 1, 1934, cat 196.
• Paris, Centennale de l’Art Français, 1889, cat. 524.
• Paris, Galeries nationales d’exposition de Grand Palais, Jean François Millet, October 17, 1975-January 5, 1976, cat. 164 (ill.).
• London, Hayward Gallery, Jean François Millet, January 22-March 7, 1976, cat. 88 (ill.).
• Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1985. cat. 9 (ill.), traveled to Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5-February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Muesum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986.
• Tokyo, ASAHI, Masterworks of Modern Art From The Art Institute of Chicago, cat. 3 (ill.), 1994, traveled to Nagaoka, Niiagata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; and Yokohama Museum of Art, 1994-1995.
• Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals in the Industrial Age, 1750-1920, October 5, 2005- February 5, 2006; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, March 26 - August 27, 2006.
• Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet, October 19, 2013–January 19, 2014; Saint Louis Art Museum, February 22–May 25, 2014, cat. 59 (ill.).
• Lille, Palais Beaux-Arts Lille, Jean-François Millet, Oct. 13, 2017- Jan. 22, 2018, cat. 34 (ill.).

• Catalogue of the Collection of Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Belonging to Henry Probasco, Cincinnati, Ohio (Cambridge, 1873), p. 398.
• Alfred Sensier, La Vie et lo’Oeuvre de Je. F. Millet (Paris, 1881), pp. 258, 263-269.
• C.C. Cook, Art and the Artists of Our Time vol. 3 (New York, 1888), p. 248.
• Vincent Van Gogh, The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh vol. 3 (Greenwich, 1958), letter p. 521 (early December, 1889).
• “Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.
• “Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 21, 1 (1894), p. 19.
• “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115.
• Julia Ady Cartwright, Jean François Millet (London 1896), pp. 250 ff, 264 ff, 370.
• Alfred Sensier, Jean-François Millet (1896), p. 170-171.
• William M. R. French, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago,” Brush and Pencil 1, 4 (1898), p. 81, ill.
• Charles Francis Browne, "The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: IV - The Henry Field Memorial Collection," Brush and Pencil 2, 1 (1898), pp. 2 (ill.), 7.
• “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 31.

Geese in a Farmyard

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In the Auvergne

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The Woodchopper

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The Little Shepherdess

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The Sheepshearers

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