Paul Gauguin

Mette Gauguin, Copenhagen (on consignment from the artist circa 1893)

Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich (acquired by 1916)

Otto Nyquist, Oslo (acquired from above through A.S. Mohr & Sønner, Bergen, Norway on 29 July 1916)

Charles J. and Aline Liebman, New York (acquired by 1930)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 7 December 1955, lot 63 (consigned by the above)

Werner and Margaret Josten, New York (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1971)

Peter W. Josten, New York (acquired by descent from the above and until at least 1984)

Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York

Acquired from the above on 22 October 1997 by the present owner

Copenhagen, Vesterbors Passage, Den Frie Udstilling, 1893, no. 149 (titled Kystlandskab. Bretagne)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture: Retrospective, 1930, no. 37, p. 5 (titled Breton Landscape)

New York, Wildenstein, Paul Gauguin, 1946, no. 5, p. 19, illustrated; p. 63 (titled Landscape, Brittany and dated 1889)

New York, Wildenstein, Gauguin, 1956, no. 16, p. 16; p. 36, illustrated (titled Landscape, Brittany)

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent oeuvres de Gauguin, 1960, no. 52, n.p., illustrated (titled Paysage du Pouldu)

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paul Gauguin, 1960, no. 40, p. 9; p. 25, illustrated (titled Landschaft bei Le Pouldu)

Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, 1960, no. 19, p. 37; pl. 5, illustrated (titled Landschaft bei le Pouldu)

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Gauguin and the Decorative Style, 1966 (titled Landscape, Brittany: The Lone House)

Cincinnati Art Museum, The Early Work of Paul Gauguin: Genesis of An Artist, 1971, no. 22, p. 12; p. 27, illustrated (titled The Lone House (La Maison Isolée))

Theodor Thorup, “Den frie Udstilling: Paul Gauguin,” Aarhus Amtstidende, vol. 27, no. 100, 1 May 1893, p. 1

Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, München, Munich, 1916, pp. XXIX and XXVIII, pl. 33, illustrated (titled Bretonische Landschaft)

Pola Gauguin, My Father Paul Gauguin, 1937, New York, p. 129, illustrated (titled Landscape)

The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer 1951, p. 32

René Huyghe, Le Carnet de Paul Gauguin, vol. II, Paris, 1952, pp. 168-69

John Rewald, Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin, New York, 1956, p. 285, illustrated (titled Landscape at Le Pouldu)

Raymond Nacenta, Gauguin, Paris, 1960, n.p., illustrated (titled Paysage du Pouldu)

Claude Roger-Marx, "Des chefs-d'oeuvre de Gauguin sortent des collections particulières," Le Figaro littéraire, 23 January 1960, p. 14, illustrated (titled Paysage)

Georges Boudaille, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, p. 113, illustrated in color (titled The Lonely House)

Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, no. 364, p. 139, illustrated (titled La Maison isolée) 

Gérard Legrand, Gauguin, Paris, 1966, p. 16; p. 19, illustrated in color (titled La Maison isolée) 

Wayne Andersen, "Gauguin's Motifs from Le Pouldu: Preliminary Report," Burlington Magazine, vol. 112, no. 810, September 1970, fig. 65, p. 616, illustrated (titled La Maison isolée)

Wladyslawa Jaworska, Paul Gauguin et l'école de Pont-Aven, Neuchâtel, 1971, p. 235, illustrated in color (titled Paysage breton, la maison isolée)

G. M. Sugana, L'Opera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, no. 179, p. 98; p. 97, illustrated (titled Pastora e mucca in riva al mare (La casa isolata))

Lee van Dowski, Die Wahrheit über Gauguin, Darmstadt, 1973, no. 170c, p. 263 (titled La Maison isolée)

Vojtěch Jirat-Wasiutyński, Gauguin in the Context of Symbolism, Dissertation, Princeton University, 1975, vol. 1, p. 185 (titled La Maison Isolée)

Pierre Leprohon, Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1975, pp. 168 and 381 (titled La Maison isolée and dated summer 1890)

Ziva Amishai-Maisels, "A Gauguin Sketchbook: Arles and Brittany," Israel Museum News, no. 10, April 1975, pp. 71 and 75 (note 18; titled Isolated House)

Elda Fezzi, Gauguin: The Complete Paintings, vol. I, London, 1979, no. 350, p. 88, illustrated (titled Shepherdess and Cow by the Sea)

Douglas Cooper, ed., Paul Gauguin: 45 Lettres à Vincent, Théo et Jo van Gogh, Amsterdam, 1983, pp. 273 and 275 (note 5)

Exh. Cat., Charlottenlund, Ordrupgaard, Gauguin og Van Gogh i København i 1893, 1984, no. 37, p. 84, illustrated (titled Kystlandskab. Le Pouldu. Landscape at Le Pouldu)

La Route des Peintres en Cornouaille: 1850–1950, Quimper, 1990, p. 98 (titled Maison du Pan du)

Belinda Thomson, ed., Gauguin by Himself, Boston, 1993, pl. 122, p. 158, illustrated in color (titled Landscape at Le Pouldu / Isolated House)

Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, eds., Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, vol. V, London, 2009, no. 828, p. 163

Stefan Koldehoff and Chris Stolwijk, eds., The Thannhauser Gallery: Marketing Van Gogh, Brussels, 2017, pp. 46 and 124 (titled Landschaft mit Kühen) 

"'La Maison du Pen du, gardeuse de vache,' 1889 (WPI Ref. No. PGX3UT)." In Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1889–1903. Edited and compiled by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/gauguin/artworks/detail?set=771&date=1889-1890&a=76169-la-maison-du-pen-du-gardeuse-de-vache (accessed on 5 October 2025)