
Inscribed at lower right, by the "Reliable Venetian Hand", in pen and brown ink, "Giambatista Piazzetta Venez.o".
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 287.
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 53.
Watermark: none.
Preparatory study for the figure in the lower corner of the Allegorical Tomb in Honor of Lord Chancellor Somers, commissioned between 1723 and 1729, now in Birmingham.
Hollstein-Rathau, Sophie von, Countess, former owner.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.