Inscription: [in pen and brown ink at lower left]: WE [monogram of William Esdaile].

Jan Pietersz Zoomer (Dutch, 1641–1724 Amsterdam); Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, Bristol 1769–1830 London), Lugt 2445; William Esdaile (British, 1758–1837 London), Lugt 2617, Esdaile sale, Christie's, London, June 17, 1840, no. 119; Christie's, London ; John Heywood Hawkins, Lugt 1472; Sotheby's, London, April 29, 1850, lot 1022; Sir Seymour Haden (British, London 1818–1910 Bramdean), Lugt 1227; Sotheby's, London, June 15, 1891, lot 587; John Postle Heseltine (British, London 1843–1929 London); H. O. Havemeyer ; Donor: Louisine W. Havemeyer

Rembrandt Harmensz van Ryn. Original drawings by Rembrandt second series. Edited by Friedrich Lippmann, II, III, The Hague, 1890, cat. no. 143.

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Die handzeichnungen Rembrandts. Haarlem, 1906, cat. no. 1037.

William Reinhold Valentiner Rembrandt drawings in the Havemeyer Collection Metropolitan Museum Studies, III. New York, 1930-1931, fig. no. 9, ill.

William M. Ivins Jr. The Unseen Rembrandt. 1942, fig. no. 35, 36, ill.

Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions) [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: Titled "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. 3 Vols., New York, 1942-1944, cat. no. 11 (Vol.2), fig. no. 11, ill.

Otto Benesch Rembrandt, selected drawings. London & NY, 1947, dates it ca. 1650, cat. no. 174.

Hans Tietze European Master Drawings in the United States. J. J. Augustin, New York, 1947, cat. no. 71, fig. no. p.143, p. 142, ill.

Théodore Rousseau Jr. "Rembrandt". 11, 1952, p. 90, ill.

Otto Benesch The Drawings of Rembrandt. VI, London, 1957, cat. no. 1249, fig. no. 1475, p. 355, ill.

Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York Graphic Society, New York, 1964, cat. no. 88, ill.

Seymour Slive Drawings of Rembrandt. New York, 1965, cat. no. 148, ill.

Linda Boyer Gillies "European Drawings in the Havemeyer Collection" Connoisseur. vol. 172, no. 693, November 1969, fig. no. 13, p. 155, ill.

Otto Benesch (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch) The Drawings of Rembrandt. Complete Edition in Six Volumes. II, London, 1973, cat. no. 1249, fig. no. 1554, p. 343, ill.

Helen Bobritzky Mules "Metropolitan Musem of Art Bulletin" Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 42, 4. New York, 1985, pp. 30, 31.

Places of Delight, The Pastoral Landscape November 6, 1988 - January 22, 1989. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., 1988–1989, fig. no. 123, pp. 132, 136, ill.