Originally attributed by Janos Scholz to Guercino and identified as "Two Dwarfs," the drawing was later catalogued a "A Bundled Child" by Annibale Carracci. According to a note on the old mat, it was subsequently reattributed to Schedoni at the suggestion of Babette Bohn.
Aidan Weston-Lewis (in W.M. Brady & Co., Master Drawings 1520-1890, sale cat., 2006, no. 5, note 7) compares the Morgan 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. It seems unlikely, in any case, that the Morgan and Ashmolean sheets are by the same hand.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Alfred Neumeyer and Janos 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 Janos Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 25, repr. (as Annibale Carracci)