Signature: Lower left, in pen and brown ink: Claudio fe[cit] (illegible)

Inscription: In pen and ink at upper margin of verso: "philip de flines/ :f:/ 39"; on verso, upper right in black chalk: "2374/ Claude"

Marking: Lower right in black ink: collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (Lugt 2184)

Philips de Flines Amsterdam, ca. 1700; Jonathan Richardson, Senior (British, London 1665–1745 London)London; Frederik Muller (Dutch, 1883–1944)November 20-21, 1882, lot 333; Vendor: Carfax through Fry (British)Through Fry

Röthlisberger 1968.73; Bean and Turcic 1986.58

Marcel G. Röthlisberger "The Art Quarterly" "Drawings by Claude Lorrain in American Museums". 4, 24, Winter 1961, fig. no. 4, p. 348, ill.

Roger Eliot Fry "Drawings". 2, no. 12, December. New York, December 1907, p. 200.

Marcel G. Röthlisberger Claude Lorrain: The Paintings. 2 vols., New Haven, 1961, cat. no. 229, p. 498.

Marcel G. Röthlisberger Claude Lorrain The Drawings. 2 vols., Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968, cat. no. 73, fig. no. pl. 73, pp. 100-101, ill.

Marcel G. Röthlisberger, Doretta Cecchi L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain. Milan, 1975, cat. no. 60, p. 92.

Michael Kitson "Further Unpublished Paintings by Claude" in Burlington Magazine. 72, December 1980, p. 834.

H. Diane Russell Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682. Washington, D.C., 1982, cat. no. under no. 21, p. 130.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1986, cat. no. 58, pp. 60-61, ill.

Pierre Rosenberg, Benjamin Peronnet, Hermann Mildenberger, David Mandrella From Callot to Greuze French Drawings from Weimar. Berlin, 2005, cat. no. under no. 16, pp. 78-79.