Feast of the Wine (The Procession of the Ram), This painting depicts a ceremonial parade in which a fattened animal is lead to slaughter. Here, several peasants walk in a procession leading a ram tied to a rope. They drink wine from goblets., c.1650

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FREN.0366; Public Notes: The Philadelphia Museum of Art lists the provenance as follows:

"Collection of Marin de La Haye, Paris, by 1753 [1]; sale, Mme de La Haye, December 1, 1778, lot 9. Private collection, Paris, by 1934 [2]; with Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1934-1950 [3]; purchased by the PMA for the George W. Elkins collection, 1950. 1. The painting appears in an inventory of the de la Haye collection, October 13, 1753 as Le Nain. It was later seen by Horace Walpole at the Hotel de Lambert in Paris on August 9, 1771. See Horace Walpole's Correspondence, vol. VII, 1939, p. 337. 2. Exhibited at the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, Peintures de la Realite en France au XVIIe siècle, 1934, no. 81. The painting was discovered and published by George Isarlo in La Revue de l'art, Nov. & Dec. 1934, illus. opp. p. 178. 3. Notes in the file from an interview with Paul [i.e., Alexandre?] Rosenberg on March 1, 1969 indicate that his father purchased the painting shortly after the Orangerie exhibition but that documentation regarding the history of the painting was lost during Wold War II in Paris. The painting was included in a Le Nain exhibition at Knoedler Gallery in New York in 1936."

This work is likely the pendant to "Feast of the Wine (The Procession of the Fatted Ox)", in the Musee Picasso, Paris.