Verso: figure sketches, in pen and brown ink, and black chalk.
Watermark: none.
Naldini, Giovanni Battista, 1537-1591, Formerly attributed to.
Durand, Edme, -1835, former owner.
Diaz, Émile, 1835-1860, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Selected references: Indianapolis 1954, no. 21 (as Naldini); Gere 1969, 180, no. 148; Fellows Report 1976, 187; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 5; Milwaukee 1989-90, 112-13, no. 26; Acidini Luchinat 1998-99, 1: 130, 135, note 111; Brooks 2007, 53-54, no. 43.
Robert O. Parks, Pontormo to Greco, The Age of Mannerism: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the Century 1520-1620, exh. cat., John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, 1954, no. 21, repr. (Naldini; subject as Judith).
John A. Gere, Taddeo Zuccaro. His Development Studied in his Drawings, London, 1969, p. 180, no. 148 (Taddeo Zuccaro, ca. 1560).
Charles Ryskamp, ed., Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1972-1974, New York, 1976, p. 187.
Konrad Oberhuber and Dean Walker, Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1973-1974, no. 5 (Taddeo Zuccaro).
E. James Mundy, Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, and the National Academy of Design, New York, 1989-90, pp. 112-13, no. 26, repr. (p. 31, repr. in color).
Cristina Acidini Luchinat, Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, fratelli pittori del Cenquecento, 2 vols., Milan and Rome, 1998-1999, vol. 1, pp. 130, 135 n. 111, fig. 57 (ca. 1560).
Julian Brooks, Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome, exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2007, pp. 53-54, no. 43, repr.
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, no. 5 (includes full bibliography and exhibitions).