The Woodchopper

1. The artist; his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10–11, 1875, lot 28. Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, 1894 [according to an inventory dated December 1921 in the Art Institute Archives]; his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918); by descent to their sons Honoré and Potter Palmer; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, May–August 1910, cat. 32.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 255.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 199B.
• Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Insho-ha ten (The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago), October 18–December 17, 1985, no. 3; Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte, June 16–September 19, 2004, hors cat.
• Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms, Feb. 14 - May 10, 2016.

• Louis Soullié, Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins de Jean-François Millet: relevés dans les catalogues de ventes de 1849 à 1900 (Paris: L. Soullié, 1900), p. 49.
• Lena M. McCauley, “Some Collectors of Paintings,” Art and Archaeology 12, 3–4 (1921), p. 167.
• Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Millet: Raconté par lui-même, vol. 2 (Paris: Henri Laurens, 1921), pp. 46, 74, no. 11.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 68, no. 828.
• “The Potter Palmer Collection of Paintings,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 16, 3 (1922), p. 37.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 68, no. 828.
• “Millets in the Art Institute,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 18, 7 (1924), pp. 88 (ill.), 89.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 146, no. 828.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 164.
• Ishbel Ross, Silhouette in Diamonds: The Life of Mrs. Potter Palmer (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960), p. 156.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 312.
• Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 1 (1966), pp. 45, 61, fig. 17.

Geese in a Farmyard

Art Institute of Chicago

Peasants Going to Work

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Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

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The Woodchopper

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The Keeper of the Flock

Art Institute of Chicago

In the Auvergne

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The Little Shepherdess

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The Sheepshearers

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