The Art Treasures of America. reprint, 1977. New York, 1879, vol. 1, p. 134.
Montezuma [Montague Marks]. "My Note Book." Art Amateur 16 (May 1887), p. 122.
Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer. "The Wolfe Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. II." Independent 39 (November 24, 1887), p. 9, considers it a lesser work by the artist.
Walter Rowlands. "The Miss Wolfe Collection." Art Journal, n.s., (January 1889), p. 13.
Sophia Antoinette Walker. "Fine Arts: The Painting Master in the Wolfe Collection." Independent 46 (August 2, 1894), p. 12.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art—The French Painters." New York Times (May 22, 1895), p. 4.
William Sharp. "The Art Treasures of America (Concluded.)." Living Age, 7th ser., 1 (December 3, 1898), p. 604, notes that it was purchased from the artist by Wolfe in 1873.
Frank Fowler. "The Field of Art: Modern Foreign Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum, Some Examples of the French School." Scribner's Magazine 44 (September 1908), p. 382.
Charles Sterling, and Margaretta M. Salinger. "XIX Century." French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2, New York, 1966, p. 157, ill.
Barbara Wright. Eugène Fromentin: A Life in Art and Letters. Bern, 2000, p. 494, lists it among works of 1873 that Fromentin painted primarily for financial reasons.
James Thompson and Barbara Wright. Eugène Fromentin, 1820–1876: Visions d'Algérie et d'Égypte. 2nd rev. ed (1st ed., 1987). Paris, 2008, pp. 362, 383, ill., note the similarity of its composition to that of another Fromentin painting (about 1873; sold at Christie's, London, June 21, 2001, no. 16).
