Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "palma 1625"; on the mount at lower left, just beneath the drawing, in pen and brown ink, possibly by Mariette, "Jacopo. Palma. Vechio"; last word cancelled and inscribed beside it, in graphite, "/ Giovane"; at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "École Venitienne"; on verso of mount, at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "No[o superscript] 31 (cancelled)"; at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "3. D. L. 60 / Notre Seigneur Donnant Les Clefs à St Pierre / Dessin à la plume lavé d'encre de la chine / sur papier gris -; No[o superscript]. 8 - - 0-10-6 "; in pencil, "J. Sch / N.Y. 1950 ".
Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, former owner.
Mariette, Pierre Jean, 1694-1774, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Venetian Drawings, 1600-1800. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Berkeley : Gillick, 1960, no. 46 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
The Life of Christ : Drawings from the Janos Scholz Collection : Italian Drawings from the 16th through the 18th Century. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1964, no. 46.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 285.