Watermark: none.
There are related drawings by the artist representing "Temperantia" (Berlin), "Prudentia" (Schwerin), and two of "Iustitia" (the Art Museum, Princeton; Seiden and De Cuevas, Inc. [on loan to the Fogg Art Museum]).
Inscribed by the artist at lower left edge, in brush and black tempera, "PATIENTIA". On verso, in an old hand, in pen and brown ink, "hinrich Degener".
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 91, repr.
Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Art Museum, Princeton, and elsewhere, 1982, no. 17, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 253.