Signed, lower right: Millet

Inscribed, back of canvas: CATHERINE | CHANCOIGNE | 1841

collection of Chancoigne-Roumy family (Turqueville, France)

until 1933, by descent to Bernard Roumy

November 25, 1933, auction of Bernard Roumy by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France), lot 77

1933, purchased by (Feuardent Frères, Paris, France)

1933, private collection (Geneva, Switzerland)

by 1977, (Heim Gallery, London, England)

1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lepoittevin, L. Jean-Francois Millet Portraitiste, Essai et Catalogue. Paris, 1971, no. 47. "Annual Report 1976/1977," Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 1 (1977): pp. 10, 23, 25, 27, (fig. 12). "La Chronique des Arts Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1977," Gazette des Beaux-Arts Supplement 1310 (March 1978): p. 52, no. 231 (ill.). Mosby, Dewy F. The Figure in Nineteenth-Century French Painting. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1978, p. 39, cat. 12 (ill.). Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 110, no. 81 (ill.). Wright, Christopher. The World’s Master Paintings: From the Early Renaissance to the Present Day, vol. 1. London and New York, 1992, p. 589.

Jean-François Millet, Madame Catherine Chancoigne, 1841, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 77.23.