Formerly attributed to Bacchiacca (1494-1557); Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1556); Ferraù Fenzoni (1562-1645); Domenico Fiasella (1589-1669).
Inscribed near lower right in pen and brown-gray ink, "anib. Cara(?)"; on verso near upper left in pen and brown-black ink, "Sig. Anibale Caracci (missing) Roma"; above that traces of inscription, illegible; also inscribed on verso at lower right in pen and gray ink, "Cesare T(?)".
Watermark: Pear with two leaves (Briquet 7392: Lucques, 1516/18).
Bachiacca, 1494-1557, Formerly attributed to.
Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556, Formerly attributed to.
Fenzoni, Ferraù, 1562-1645, Formerly attributed to.
Fiasella, Domenico, 1589-1669, Formerly attributed to.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Selected references: Oakland and Berkeley 1961, no. 77 (as follower of Andrea del Sarto); Santa Barbara 1974, 68, no. 49 (as Domenico Fiasella).
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 77 (as Follower of Andrea del Sarto).
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 49, repr. (as Domenico Fiasella).