Camille Pissarro

Octave Mirbeau, Paris (acquired as a gift from the artist in October 1891)

Alice Regnault, Paris (Mme Octave Mirbeau) (acquired by descent from the above)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Succession de Mme Octave Mirbeau, 6 June 1932, lot 7 (consigned by the above)

Musée de l’Athénée, Geneva

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (acquired from the above on 2 June 1955)

Sir Simon Marks, 1st Baron Marks of Broughton (acquired from the above in November 1958 and until at least 1963)

Richard Green Gallery, London

The Hon. Mrs Hanna Marcow, Monaco

Richard Green Gallery, London

Acquired from the above on 18 October 2000 by the present owner

Maurice Le Blond, L’Aurore, 9 April 1904, p. 1

L'Art Vivant, 15 March 1926, p. 202, illustrated

Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art, son œuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1939, no. 770, p. 189, catalogued; vol. II, no. 770, pl. 159, illustrated

Terence Kennedy, "Twelve Favourite Paintings," The Connoisseur, vol. CXLVI, July-December 1960, p. 250, illustrated

Lucien Pissarro and John Rewald, Camille Pissarro: Letters to His Son Lucien, London, 1980, p. 184

Janine Bailly-Herzberg, Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. III, Paris, 1988, letter no. 690, p. 123; letter no. 692, p. 124; letter no. 693, p. 125 and letter no. 715, p. 150

Janine Bailly-Herzberg, Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. V, Paris, 1988, letter no. 2074, p. 415

Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nevet, Octave Mirbeau. Correspondence avec Auguste Rodin, Tusson, 1990, letter no. 12, p. 51 and letter no. 13, p. 54

Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, New York, 1993, no. 180, p. 169, illustrated

Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. III, Paris, 2005, no. 918, p. 604, illustrated in colour

Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, L’Œuvre de Camille Pissarro, 1904, no. 81

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Recent Acquisitions XIII, 1958, no. 4, illustrated (titled Gardeuse d'Oies)

London, Wildenstein & Co. Ltd, The French Impressionists and Some of Their Contemporaries, 1963, no. 7, illustrated