Watermark: none.
Attributed to Perino del Vaga, 1501-1547.
The attribution to Muziano is owed to Philip Pouncey.
Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "Il- Parmenganino"; on verso, in graphite, "23. Parmes[mostly eradicated] / Slg [ie Sammlung] Max von Heyl zu Herrnsheim / " [ie. Sammlung] Prinz Johann Georg von Sachsen".
Parmigianino, 1503-1540, Formerly attributed to.
Muziano, Girolamo, 1532-1592, Formerly attributed to.
Johann Georg, Prince of Saxony, 1869-1938, former owner.
Heyl zu Herrnsheim, Maximilian von, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Selected references: Fellows Report 1978, 279 (as attributed to Girolamo Muziano); New York 1979, 31, no. IV; New York 1981, 43, no. 15 (as Florentine school, first quarter of sixteenth century); Costamagna, in Modena and Rennes 1990, under no. 14 (as Francesco Granacci); Wolk-Simon, in New York 1994, 70-72, no. 64 (as Perino del Vaga); Van der Sman 1999,167 (as attributed to Perino del Vaga); Parma, in Mantua 2001, 131 (as Perino del Vaga); New York 2019, 57 (as attributed to Perino del Vaga).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 279.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, IV, 31.
New York, 1981, p. 43, no. 15.