Inscription: Lower right, in Degas's hand: Me Loubens; Verso, in blue chalk: Ph 1760

Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower left: mark of Degas's estate sale (Lugt 658); stamped in ochre ink, lower center: mark of MMA; numbered in red ink, lower right (partially removed): 19.51.4 Verso: stamped in red ink, lower right: mark of Degas atelier (Lugt 657)

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris,Sale 2, Dec.11-13,1918, no.237,repr2eme vente Degas, Paris, Dec. 11-13, 1918, no. 237, repr.

Lemoisne II.267;Degas Sale 2, 237.1

Bryson Burroughs "Drawings by Degas" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 14, no. 5, New York, May 1919, p. 115.

The Life and Work of Edgar Degas. London, 1927, p. 49.

Paul-André Lemoisne Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols + Suppl, Paris, 1946-1949, cat. no. vol. 11, no. 267, ill.

Jacques Fryszman "French Drawings from the Metropolitan Museum at the Louvre" Burlington Magazine. vol. 115, no. 849, London, December 1973, p. 837.

Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des musées nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 October, 1973-7 January 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 29, fig. no. 59, ill.

Charles S. Moffett Degas in the Metropolitan. , New York, 1977, cat. no. 10.

Ann Dumas, Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. New York, 1997, fig. no. 373, pp. 271, 283, 28, ill.

Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. A Summary Catalogue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, p. 128.