Formerly attributed to the School of Giovanni Bellini, Venice 1431/6-1516 Venice.
Inscribed on verso of lining, in graphite, "3".
Bellini, Giovanni, 1426?-1516, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Bellini, Giovanni, 1426?-1516, Formerly attributed to.
Normanby, George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Marquis of, 1819-1890, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 55.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 52, (as school of Bellini); Heinemann 1962, 1:235, no. V.118 (as perhaps by Benedetto Diana); New York 1965-66, no. 5 (as studio of Giovanni Bellini); Stockholm 1970, no. 31 (as studio of Giovanni Bellini).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 52, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, no. 5, repr.