Study of a Kneeling Youth and of the Head of Another

Inscription: On verso, annotated in pen and brown ink, by two different hands, "Rafaelo"; and on a piece of paper pasted onto the verso, "N° 29° Rafaello".

Marking: On verso, towards lower left corner, collector's stamp in blue ink (apparently pasted onto a separate piece of paper), "J.P.H." (John Postle Heseltine; Lugt 1507).

Count Scipione Conestabile, Italian (Italian)(according to Heseltine); John Postle Heseltine (British); Henry Oppenheimer (British); his sale, Christie's, London, July 10, 13–14, 1936, lot 135 (as Perugino or Raphael); Philip Hofer; Walter C. Baker (American), New York

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Drawings," June 2–September 4, 1960.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 6, 1997–January 4, 1998.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," February 8–May 3, 1999.

Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia. "Perugino: Il divin pittore," May 10, 2004–July 18, 2004.

John Postle Heseltine Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School Forming part of the Collection of John Postle Heseltine. London, 1913, no. 37 (as Raphael), ill.

Oskar Fischel Die Zeichnungen der Umbrer Jahrbuch der Koniglich Preuszischen. Berlin, 1917, cat. no. 58, fig. no. 128, p. 122, ill.

Claus Virch Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962, p. 16, no. 4, ill.

Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann Drawings from the Clark Art Institute. 2 vols., New Haven, Conn. and London, 1964, cat. no. 8, fig. no. 13, p. 12.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 175, fig. no. 175, pp. 182-83, ill.

Pietro Scarpellini Perugino. Milan, 1984, p. 104, under no. 119.

Joseph Antenucci Becherer Pietro Perugino Master of the Italian Renaissance. Exh. cat. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1997, p. 147, no. 3.

Giovanna Sapori "Collezionismo e mercato dei disegni a Perugia nel Seicento." Il Segno che dipinge. Ed. by Caterina Bon Valsassina, Bologna, 2002, pp. 46-47, fig. 7.

Vittoria Garibaldi, Francesco Federico Mancini Perugino: il divin pittore. Exh. cat., Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia. Milan, 2004, p. 368, no. II.20 (entry by Lisa Venturini).

Furio Rinaldi "A New Cartoon by Timoteo Viti and His Activity as a Draftsman" Master Drawings. Vol. 51, no. 2, 2013, p. 156, note 6.