Julien Dupré

The artist (no. 3), titled Faucheurs de Seigle;

James W. Wadsworth (1846-1926), Washington, DC.;

Thence by descent, Herbert Wadsworth (1851-1927);

Thence by descent, Martha Blow (1864-1934);

Thence by descent, Mrs. Michael Moukhanoff;

Estate sale of Herbert Wadsworth, Ashantee, Avon, New York, 27 May 1939, lot 141 (unsold);

Private collection, United States.

Le Siècle, 6 May 1877, p. 3

Le Bien Public, 7 May 1877, p. 3.

Journal officiel de la République française, 10 June 1877, p. 8.

H. L. Rehs and Dr. J. Whitmore, Julien Dupré catalog raisonné (online), Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York, cat. no. W1083.

H. L. Rehs, "Julien Dupré: The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of an Academic Reputation" in Twenty-First Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Art, Essays in Honor of Gabriel P. Weisberg, Newark 2008, pp. 94-98.

Paris, Salon, 1877, no. 773 (as Faucheurs de seigle, en Picardie)

Julien Dupré showed this monumental harvest scene–one of his largest and most accomplished compositions–at the Salon of 1877 as Les Faucheurs de seigle, en Picardie, his second appearance at the official-state sponsored exhibition where he debuted the previous year. Having studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studios of Isidore Pils and Henri Lehman, Dupré devoted himself to scenes of daily life in the rural environs of Paris.