Richard Messerer. "Georg von Dillis, Leben und Werk." Oberbayerisches Archiv 84 (1961), p. 87, no. 34, as "Parklandschaft," with the dimensions 20 x 26 cm; catalogues it in the section entitled "München und nächste Umgebung (an der Isar und im Englischen Garten)".
Christoph Heilmann in Johann Georg von Dillis (1759–1841) Landschaft und Menschenbild. Exh. cat., Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Neue Pinakothek. Munich, 1991, pp. 104–5, no. 23, ill. (color), as "Buchen im englischen Garten nahe beim Aumeister"; suggests that the artist was seated before and below the two beech trees at right as he worked, adding the smaller tree at left, depicted at eye level, from his imagination, in the studio.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter in The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994. Exh. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library. New York, 2002, pp. 170–71, no. 77, ill. (color), states that the inscription on the back of this painting, translated as "Beech trees in the English Garden near the Aumeister" (a country inn), suggests that it was intended as an independent work of art rather than a study; calls "The Prater Island near Munich" (Ref. Messerer 1961, no. 24; Oskar Reinhardt Foundation, Winterthur), a pendant oil sketch of identical dimensions.
Asher E. Miller in "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2008–2010." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 68 (Fall 2010), pp. 47, 49, ill. (color).
Esther Bell. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Thaw Collection." Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection. New York, 2011, p. 119, no. 53, ill. (color), calls it "Beech Trees in the English Garden, Munich".
