Watermark: none.
A copy after Michelangelo's David (Apollo) in the Museo Nazionate del Bargello, Florence.
Formerly attributed to Rosso Fiorentino.
Numbered at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "3".
Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540, Formerly attributed to.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, after.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Selected references: Tolnay 1948, 3: 96, 182 (as Rosso); Oakland and Berkeley 1961, no. 73 (as Rosso); Cambridge 1962, no. 30 (as Rosso); Milwaukee 1964, no. 34 (as Rosso); Notre Dame and Binghamton 1970, 74-75, no. D8 (as Rosso); Pope-Hennessy 1970, 324-25; Providence 1973, 56, no. 61 (as Rosso); Washington and New York, 1973-74, 32-33, no. 25, (as Rosso); Carroll 1976, 1: 158-61, 2: 258-62, no. D.22 (as Rosso); Darragon 1983, 42 (as Rosso); Washington 1987-88, 146-48, no. 49 (as Rosso); Fellows Report 1989, 374 (as Rosso); Costamagna 1991, 61, note 19 (as Salviati); Joannides, in Rome and Paris 1998, 55, note 3 (as Salviati); Rosenberg 2000, 246-47, no. NZ398 (as Rosso); Joannides, in Ames-Lewis and Joannides 2003, 71 (as Salviati); Minning 2010, 238 (as unknown artist).
Charles de Tolnay, Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel, III, Princeton, 1948, 182, fig. 272.
Eugene A. Carroll, "Some Drawings by Rosso Fiorentino," Burlington Magazine, ciii, 1961, 453, no. 28.
Eugene A. Carroll, The Drawings of Rosso Fiorentino, New York, 1976, I, 158-61, II, 258-62, fig. 76.
Rosso Fiorentino: Drawings, Prints, and Decorative Arts, exh. cat. by Eugene A. Carroll, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1987-88, no. 49, repr.
Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1989, p. 374-375.