Watermark: none.
Inscribed on verso at center right in pen and brown ink, "Almeo"; at lower left, in pen and black ink, "No. 137" on lining or on verso.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 35.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:17; New York 1987, no. 1; Rosand 1988, 359; Young 1988, 59; New York and Chicago 1994, no. 56.
Charles Fairfax Murray, Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray (J. Pierpont Morgan Collection), London 1905-1912, vol. 1, no. 17, repr. (Raphael).
John A. Gere, Drawings by Raphael and his Circle from British and North American Collections, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1987, pp. 42-43, no. 1, repr. (Raphael, from Umbrian period).
David Rosand, “Raphael Drawings Revisited (Review)”, Master Drawings, 26, 1988, no. 4, p. 359, fig. 1 (Raphael).
Linda Wolk-Simon in William M. Griswold and Linda Wolk-Simon, Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections, exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1994, pp. 61-62, no. 56, repr. p. 197 (notes derivation from Michelangelo's David).