Leeds City Museum. "National Exhibition of Works of Art," 1868, no. 573 (as "A Woman holding a Jug and a Man behind her," by Gabriel Metsu, lent by the Baron de Ferrières, possibly this picture).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.

C[ornelis]. Hofstede de Groot. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. 1, London, 1907, pp. 307–8, no. 175f, possibly this picture; as "A Woman holding a Jug and a Man behind her," by Gabriel Metsu; no mention of support, dimensions, or signature; recorded as "Exhibited at Leeds, 1868, No. 573, [lent] by Baron de Ferrières".

W[ilhelm]. R. Valentiner. Letter to Jack Linsky. June 7, 1954, attributes it to Metsu, and tentatively identifies it with no. 175f in Ref. Hofstede de Groot 1907.

Walter Liedtke in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1983–1984. New York, 1984, p. 56, ill.

Walter Liedtke in The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1984, pp. 94–97, no. 33, ill., as by Bisschop; dates it to the early 1660s; suggests that it may represent the artist and his wife.

Nanette Salomon. "Jan Steen's Formulation of the Dissolute Household, Sources and Meanings." Holländische Genremalerei im 17. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1987, p. 340 n. 26 [reprinted in "Shifting Priorities: Gender and Genre in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting," Stanford, 2004, p. 127 n. 26].

Alan Chong and Marjorie E. Wieseman. "De figuurschilderkunst in Dordrecht." De Zichtbaere Werelt: Schilderkunst uit de Gouden Eeuw in Hollands oudste Stad. Exh. cat., Dordrechts Museum. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 1992, p. 28, fig. 25, call it a typical genre scene by Bisschop, closely related to large-scale genre paintings by Maes.

Walter Liedtke in "Paintings, Drawings, and Prints: Art-Historical Perspectives." Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Aspects of Connoisseurship. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2, New York, [1995], p. 151, under no. 53.

Walter Liedtke. Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 36–39, 328, 331 n. 8, no. 8, colorpl. 8.

Esmée Quodbach. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), pp. 62, 66, fig. 75 (color, MMA Linsky gallery photograph).