
Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, by Padre Resta, "Marco da[or de] Pino Sene[n]se dipinse 1575 / discepolo p[rim]a del Mecarino poi di Perino poi dipinse sotto Daniel Volterrano. Il Lomass[or zz]o lo [fa?] discepolo di M.A. Bonarota"; on verso of lining, at upper left, in graphite, "1652"; at lower left, in graphite, "287", at lower center, in graphite, "5".
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 118.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 189; Paris 1967a, 3; Macandrew 1980, 53; Leone de Castris 1993, 208, 231n46; New York and Chicago 1994, no. 97, 241; Leone de Castris 1996, 232n57; Zezza 2003, no. C.23, fig. V.46.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 189, repr.
Watermark: none.