Originally attributed by Janos Scholz to Guercino and identified as "Two Dwarfs," the drawing was later catalogued a "A Bundled Child" by Annibale Carracci. It was reattributed to Schedoni, perhaps by Peter Dreyer, when it was accessioned by the Morgan. Aidan Weston-Lewis (in W.M. Brady & Co., Master Drawings 1520-1890, sale cat., 2006, no. 5, note 7) compares the drawing to a double-sided sheet in the Ashmolean (inv. WA1953.137), arguing that both are by assistants in the Carracci workshop, though Anne Sutherland Harris (Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: Commentary and Translation, 2000, 403-406) attributes the Ashmolean sheet to Ludovico Carracci.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Alfred Neumeyer and János Scholz, Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800, exh. cat., Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, and elsewhere, 1957, no. 82. Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 25, repr.