Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscribed on verso of lining, in pen and brown ink, "S.V. n:⁰ 11".
Sagredo-Borghese, former owner.
Sagredo, Zaccaria, 1653-1729, former owner.
Marignane, Maurice, 1879-1956, former owner.
Marignane, H. de (Hubert), former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., 1899-1982, 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. 47.
Selected references: Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, nos. 6 and 7; Detroit 1960, no. 28 (Head of a Youth Facing Left); Staten Island 1961, no. 5 (Head of a Youth Facing Left); Cologne 1963-64, nos. 86 and 87; New Haven 1964, nos. 5 and 6; New York 1971, no. 50 (Head of a Bearded Man in Profile to the Right); Washington and New York 1973-74, 77-79, no. 65; New York 1974, 45; Lawrence 1986, no. 8; Milan 1987-88, under nos. 30 and 31; Simonetto 1988, 74; Rennes 1990, 32-33, under no. 10; Venice 1992, 372, under no. 79; Pedretti and Trutty-Coohill 1993, 76, no. 37; Bora et al. 1998, 110; Venice 1999a, 104, under no. 33; Simonetto 2001, 275.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 172-173.
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, no. 65, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965.
János Scholz, Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection, New York, 1976, no. 19B, repr.