Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly Sienese School, 15th century.
Formerly Veronese School.
Formerly attributed to Martino di Bartolomeo.
Inscribed by the artist, at upper center, in pen and brown ink: "R"; at lower left, in pen and brown ink: "R".
Bartolomeo di Martino, active 14th century-15th century, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 3.
Selected references: London 1904, no. 76; Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no.2; Weitenkampf 1917, 79; Weitenkampf 1919, 5; Toronto 1926, no. 26; Tietze 1947, no. 2; Degenhart and Schmitt 1968-2010, 1: no. 110; Seymour 1968, 1:104n23; Zucker 1973, 252; Ragghianti Collobi 1974, 1:39; Florence 1978, xx; Sutton 1979, 295; De Marchi 1988-89, 198n22; Forlani Tempesti 1991, 165; De Marchi 2002, 182; Weppelmann 2003, 11n5; Weppelmann 2003a, 321; Weppelmann 2011, 332.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 2.
Frank Weitenkampf, Drawings from the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. Lent for Exhibition by Mr. John Pierpont Morgan (reprinted from New York Public Library Bulletin, January 1919), New York Public Library, 1 February- 30 April 1919.
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 1927, Vol. XXII, No. 5, p. 137