Winged Putto Holding the Base of a Cross

Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink on verso: "Tiziano".

Marking: Stamped, lower left, with the collectors' marks of Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364) and, lower right, of Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092) and William Mayor (Lugt 2799).

Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes) (Dutch, British); Sir Joshua Reynolds (British); William Mayor (British); Louisa and Lucia Cohen; Robert Langton Douglas

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

A brief chronological description of a collection of original drawings and sketches, by the most celebrated Masters [...] formed by and belonging to the late Mr. Mayor.. London, 1874, p. 25, no. 131 (as Giorgione).

Exhibition of Venetian Art, The New Gallery, Regent Street, 1894–95. New Gallery, London, London, 1894, no. 334 (as Giorgione), cat. no. no. 334.

Detlev Baron von Hadeln "Two Drawings by Titian" in Art in America. April, 1927, vol. 15, 1927, pp. 127-129 (as Titian).

Adolfo Venturi Storia dell'arte Italiana. vol 9, part, 1928, p. 245, fig. 121 (as Titian), ill.

Hans Tietze, Erica Tietze-Conrat "Tizian Studien." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien. vol. 10, Vienna, 1936, pp. 185-86, fig. 162 (as not by Titian, closer to Romanino), ill.

August Mayer Liebmann "A propos d'un nouveau livre sur le Titien." Gazette des Beaux Arts. No. 18, ser. 29, 1937, p. 311 (as Titian).

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, also N.S., no. 5. (as Titian?), cat. no. 15 (vol.1), fig. no. 15, ill.

Hans Tietze, Erica Tietze-Conrat The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944 (reprinted 1970, 1979), no. A 1944 (as not by Titian).

A. Hyatt Mayor, John Goldsmith Phillips "Notes: The Renaissance Galleries." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 5, no. 3, New York, November 1946, p. 94 (as Titian).

Bert W. Meijer Hommage à Titien. Paris, 1976, p. 10, under cat. no. 4, pl. 27 (as Titian).

Bert W. Meijer Omaggio a Tiziano. Florence, 1976, p. 10, under cat. no. 4, fig. 4b (as Titian).

Terisio Pignatti Tiziano, Disegni. Florence, 1979, p. 6 (as copy after Titian).

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. 250, pp. 245-46, ill.

Harold E. Wethey Titian and His Drawings with Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries. Princeton, 1987, pp. 23, 225, no. X-8, repr. (as School of the Caracci after Titian).

Maria Agnese Chiari Moretto Wiel "Per un catalogo ragionato dei disegni di Tiziano." Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte. Vol. 16, 1988, p. 82.

William R. Rearick Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001, p. 84 (as Francesco Vecellio).