Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris, no. 30324 (by October 1911) 
F. Gérard, Paris (acquired from the above, November 1911) 
M. Michel Pelletier (and sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 1, 1922, lot 81, illustrated) 
Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired as half-share with Allard, Paris, June 1922, until May 1924 as Les Lavendieres des bords de la Marne) 
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, April 24, 2002, lot 48, illustrated 
Galerie Michael, Beverly Hills (acquired at the above sale) 
Acquired from the above in 2005

Mary M. Hamel, A French Artist: Léon Lhermitte, 1844-1925, Ph.D. dissertation, St. Louis, Washington University, 1974, p. 311
Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: 1844-1925: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 146, no. 214, illustrated (as location unknown)

The work is in its original unlined state. The surface is clean and bright. There are two paper patches adhered to the reverse of the canvas: one at the horizon line to the right of the standing figure and one in the vegetation at lower right; these appear to be douane stamps and do not correspond to any visible retouches. Under UV: broad, brushy dashes of retouching scattered along the extreme edges at upper left and upper center. Smaller isolated areas of retouching at lower left, lower center, and lower right edge.
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