Study for the painting in the Frick Collection, New York.
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Paolo Veronese"; on verso, at upper right, in black chalk, "Di Paulo Verones."; on verso of mount at lower right, in pen and black ink, "N 9" and a symbol below.
Watermark: Anchor within a circle (close to Briquet 557).
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 244-245.
Gilbert, Creighton, et al. Drawings of the Italian Renaissance from the Scholz Collection. Bloomington : Indiana University Art Center, 1958, no. 45, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions)