Watermark: sword in a circle.
Paper squared for transfer, in graphite; framing line on mount in pen and brown ink.
The counterproof of a cabinetmaker on the verso of the lining suggests that the drawing was once part of an album devoted to the subject of laborers.
On back of lining: counterproof of a cabinetmaker, in black chalk.
Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "C. Vanni"; numbered at upper right corner of mount in pen an dbrown ink, "116 [crossed out and cut off?] / g [cut off]"; inscribed at bottom edge of mount in pen and brown ink, "del C. Vanni Vecchio emulando Annibale Caracci, men vigoroso, forse più morbido".
Scholz, János, donor.
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 94.
Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1989, p. 384-385.