Study of Boy's Head; the Queen of Sheba Before Solomon

Inscription: Inscribed most probably by the artist in pen and brown ink at center of left border: "la Reginasabea Ascholta / la sapientia De Salomo[n]." Annotated by a much later hand, along center of lower border: "Bassan."

Sir James Knowles (British); his sale, Christie's, London, May 27–29, 1908, part of lot 126 as Bassano (to Carfax); Vendor: Carfax & Co. (British), through Roger Eliot Fry

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Portraits and States," February 6–April 30, 2018.

Roger Eliot Fry "Recent Acquisitions of Drawings." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 4, no. 1, New York, January 1909, (as Leandro Bassano), p. 7.

Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, cat. no. 26 (vol.1), fig. no. 26, ill.

Hans Tietze, Erica Tietze-Conrat The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944 (reprinted 1970, 1979), cat. no. no. A229, fig. no. pl. CXCVII, 4, p. 57.

Winslow Ames Great Drawings of All Time. Volume I: Italian, Thirteenth through Nineteenth Century. Edited by Ira Moskowitz, vol. 1, New York, 1962, cat. no. 236, ill.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, (as anonimous Venetian [?]), cat. no. 293, fig. no. 293, p. 293, ill.

Carmen C. Bambach "A New Drawing by Antonio Vassilacchi, Called Aliense." Master Drawings. No. 4, vol. 47, 2009, (as Antonio Vassilacchi called Aliense), fig. no. 1, 6, pp. 452-457, ill.