Acquired as Niccolo dell'Abate.
Inscribed at lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Parmeggiano - from the collection of / the Duke of Alva".
Watermark: Kneeling angel holding a lily surmounted by a six-pointed star (compare ot Briquet 626: Reggio-Emilia, 1545; 626: Reggio-Emilia, 1554; 625: Vicenza, 1547).
Genevosio, Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi, 1719-1795, former owner.
Alva, Duke of, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Ball, C. J. (Charles James), 1851?-1924, former owner.
Lennard, Reginald Vivian, 1885-1967, former owner.
Munby, M., Mrs., former owner.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 85.
Denison, Cara D. "An Apollo by Niccolò dell'Abate", Master Drawings. New York: Master Drawings Association, vol. 28, no. 3, 1990, p. 265-267, fig. 1.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 85.
Selected references: Denison 1990, passim; Béguin 1991, 83, 89; Fortunati 1995, 157; Bologna 2002, 244, under no. 63; Modena 2005, no. 121.