Signature: Recto, lower center, pen and ink, artist's monogram and date: 1584/ Hh

Inscription: Verso, lower left, in pen and ink: J.A. Boerner 1808 R Verso, bottom left, in graphite: 745 MMA 1997.20 Mount, recto, bottom left, in pen and black ink: Hans Hofmann delt, [and in graphite]: 1600 Mount, recto, bottom right, in graphite: 250

J. A. BoernerHertel; G. M. D. Arnold(?, according to Pilz); Private Collection, Switzerland ; Donor: Purchase Lila Acheson Wallace Gift Gift, 1997

Kurt Pilz "Hans Hoffmann-Ein Nürnberger Dürer-Nachahmer aus der 2. Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts" Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg. 51, 1962, cat. no. 29, p. 263.

Fritz Koreny, Vienna, Austria, Graphische Sammlung Albertina Albrecht Dürer und die Tier-und Pflanzstudien der Renaissance Graphische Sammlung, Albertina, Vienna. Munich, Apr 30 1985-June 30 1985, cat. no. 65, fig. no. 65, p. 186, ill.

"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1996-1997. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 2, 55, Fall 1997, p. 34, ill.

Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 59 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. xiv (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens); p. 185, ill.