Inscribed at lower right, in black chalk, "6"; on verso, at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Fraco[co superscript] Parmigiano".
Watermark: Crescent shape, partly indecipherable (moon).
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Alternate attribution.
Anonymous, Italian School, 17th cent., Alternate attribution.
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 180.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 276.