Watermark: figure on a horse with a banner, in a circle; similar to Briquet nos. 47-49.
Formerly attributed to Baldassare Perruzzi, 1481-1536.
Inscribed on mount, just beneath drawing, at center, in pen and brown ink, Polidoro; on verso of mount, at upper right, in pen and brown ink (cropped by upper edge), sale number in 1753 Gerhard Jabach sale, n 158; at upper left, in pen and brown ink, N 25. - polidoo O; beneath this, in pen and ink an almost illegible, cancelled inscription, thought by Py to be by Gerhard Michael Jabach (the grandson of Everhard), perhaps reading, GMJababh (?); at center of mount, in red chalk, indication of format (Lugt 960a), fo.; followed by Everhard Jabach's paraphe in black chalk (variant of Lugt 2959).
Peruzzi, Baldassarre, 1481-1536, Formerly attributed to.
Jabach, Everhard, 1618-1695, former owner.
Jabach, Gerhard Michael, former owner.
Testas de Jonge, Pieter, 1702-1784, former owner.
Lempereur, Jean-Denis, 1701-1779, former owner.
Conti, Prince de, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Charles Fairfax Murray, Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray (J. Pierpont Morgan Collection), 4 vols, London 1905-1912, vol. 4, no. 19, repr. (Polidoro da Caravaggio).
Frits Lugt, Musée du Louvre. Inv. general des dessins des écoles du nord. Ecole flamande, Paris, 1949, vol. 2, p. 21, no. 1037.
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, “Baldassare Peruzzi als Maler und Zeichner,” Beiheft zum Römischen Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 11, 1967/68, p. 108, no. 67, repr. pl. XLIIa. (Peruzzi).
Alessandro Marabottini, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Rome, 1969, p. 350.
Lanfranco Ravelli, Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Bergamo 1978, p. 94, no. 3, repr. Michelangelo and his World with Drawings from the British Museum, exh. pamphlet, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1979, no. IV, 9.
Richard-Raymond Alasko with a further essay by Lawrence S. Lowic, Religious Narrative in 16th Century Rome, exh. cat., Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 1983, p. 70, no. 30, repr. p. 50 (Baldessare Peruzzi; formerly attributed to Polidoro da Caravaggio).
J. A. Gere, "Review of Lanfranco Ravelli, Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Bergamo, 1978," Master Drawings 23-24, 1985-86, p. 63.
J. A. Gere, Drawings by Raphael and his Circle from British and North American Collections, exh. cat., The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1987, pp. 278-79, no. 90, repr.
Mahonri Sharp Young, "Raphael at the Morgan," Apollo, Jan. 1988, p. 61, fig. 8. Zeichnungen aus der Toskana. Das Zeitalter Michelangelos, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, 1997, pp. 198-199, 303, no. 64, repr. in color.
Kunst des Sammelns. Das Praunsche Kabinett. Meisterwerke von Dürer bis Carracci, exh. cat., Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1994, pp. 262-263, no. 109, repr.
Bernadette Py, Everhard Jabach Collectioneur (1618-1695): les dessins de l'inventaire de 1695, Paris, 2001, p. 40, no. 31.
Linda Wolk-Simon, "Review: Perino del Vaga, tra Raffaello e Michelangelo, Mantua, 2001," Master Drawings 41, no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 48-49, fig. 1 (unidentified sixteenth-century Italian artist; possibly belongs to group of drawings for a cycle of Moses, two examples of which are by Perino).