Woman Feeding Chickens

• “Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 56, no. 32.
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• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 164.
• Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 1 (1966), pp. 32, 43, 57, fig. 5.
• William S. Talbot, “Jean-François Millet: Return from the Fields,” Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, 9 (1973), pp. 260–1, fig. 5.
• Edward J. Sullivan and Ruth Krueger Meyer, The Taft Museum: European and American Paintings (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995), pp. 263–4, fig. 1.

Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 17, 1985, cat. 2; traveled to Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986 and Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.

Possibly sold by the artist to Letrône [according to Soullié 1900 and see Herbert 1966]; his sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 14, 1859, no. 33. Possibly Mary J. Morgan; her sale, New York, American Art Galleries, March 3, 1886, lot 116, for 20,000 francs [price according to Soullié 1900]. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.