Preparatory design for the fresco in the cloister of Santissima Annunziata, Florence.
Inscribed at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "Bernardino Poccetti"; on verso, in pen and brown ink, "Bernardin Poccetti".
Watermark: Eagle within a circle surmounted by crown (cf. Briquet 209).
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Selected references: Oakland and Elsewhere 1961, no. 64; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 121; Washington and New York, 1973-74, 41-42, no. 32; Scholz 1976, no. 48; Florence 1980, 79-80, under no. 66.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 174.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, 32, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, 48, repr.