Return from the Fields

John W. Wilson. His sale, Paris, Drouot, 27-28 April 1874 (lot 113), Retour des Champs, ff 8,200. Frédéric Hartmann, Münster. His sale, Paris, Drouot, 11 May 1876 (lot 24), Retour des champs, 45 x 38 cm, ff 6,350. W. A. Coats, Scotland, 1901. London sale, Christie's, 10 June 1927 (lot 74), The Last Load, for £483 to Blaker. D. Croal Thompson, 1928. Howard Murray, Montreal. His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 October 1941 (lot 34, repr.), bought by L. J. Marion. Hazlitt Gallery, London. Purchased by the CMA in 1972.

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). Jean-François Millet. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (January 20-March 7, 1976); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (organizer) (October 17-January 5, 1976). Return to Nature: Millet, the Barbizon Artists, and the Renewal of the Rural Tradition. Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu (September 26-December 8, 1998). L'Ecole de Barbizon. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France (organizer) (June 20-September 9, 2002). Praised and Ridiculed: French Painting 1820 - 1880. Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (organizer) (November 10, 2017-January 28, 2018). Glasgow. International Exhibition (1901), no. 1323, The Last Load, lent by W. A. Coats, Esq. Paris, Grand Palais; London, Hayward Gallery. Jean-François Millet (1975-76), no. 22 (repr.), (no. 12 in English cat.). Køfu, Japan. Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art. Return to Nature: J. F. Millet, the Barbizon Artists, and the Renewal of the Rural Tradition (1998), 22, 108, no. ii-13, 124 (repr.). Lyon, France. Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. "L'Ecole de Barbizon" (6/20/2002 - 9/9/2002), exh cat no. 82, p.246.