Watermark: coat of arms surmounted by a star.
Inscribed on verso in pen and blue ink at upper margin, "di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli ed e scritto di suo pugno anche io / che segue a basso"; in red chalk, possibly by the artist, "Se voi saper che son, oserva quale / Serraschiere son io, come tu vedi / Che guerra piu non voglio e questo credi / Che battaglia non voglio e questo credi".
Wallach, Hellmuth, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 276.
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 73, repr.