Inscribed in the banderole, in pen and brown ink, by the artist, [illegible]; at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Julio Romano".
Watermark: Lamb with halo and standard in a circle (similar to Briquet 47: Venice, 1484) (Agnus Dei or Paschal lamb).
Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 95.
Selected references: Oakland and Berkeley 1961, no. 74; Cheney 1963, 2:532; New York 1965-66, no. 103; Notre Dame and Binghamton 1970, no. D19; Monbeig Goguel 1972, under no. 149; Washington and New York 1973- 74, 36; Scholz 1976, no. 45; Mortari 1992, no. 411; Lafranconi 1998, 542n34; Rome and Paris 1998, no. 70.
Drawings from New York Collections, I, 1965, no. 103, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Italian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. London : Art Council Gallery, 1968, no. 87.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 36.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 214.