Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "Di Donato Creti detto Ragazzino Originale Bologna / No. 73"; on verso of mount, in different pen and brown ink, "cav. Donato Creti, Cremonese, / detto Ragazzino, No. 365"; numbered in graphite, "No. 122".
Watermark: none.
Philipps, Richard, Sir, 1744-1823, former owner.
Philipps, John, Sir, former owner.
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 18, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 158-159.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 127, repr.