M. Bonzi, 'Un quadro del Palazzo Mari', [?], 30 April 1934, p. 1, reproduced (as possibly by Valentin de Boulogne [according to Franits 2013]);
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1989, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged by L. Vertova, vol. I, p. 93; reproduced vol. III, fig. 1029 (as "Caravaggesque Unknown, South Netherlandish [between Rombouts and Baburen"]);
L.J. Slatkes, "Bringing Ter Brugghen and Baburen Up-To-Date," in Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie XXXVII (1996), pp. 204-205, note 29;
N. Hartje, Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582-1622): Ein Nachfolger Caravaggios
und seine europäische Wirkung: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Weimar 2004, p. 153, note 582;
L.J. Slatkes and W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588- 1629), Philadelphia 2007, p. 165, under no. A53;
W. Franits, The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen, ca. 1592/93-1624: Catalogue Raisonné, Philadelphia 2013, pp. 95-96, 276, no. A5, reproduced in color plate 5;
G. Capitelli, "Dutch Caravaggists in Rome," in Caravaggio and the Painters of the North, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 2016, p. 37 (as possibly a "mélange" drawn from the oeuvre of Baburen and Ribera)
B. Ebert and L.M. Helmus, eds., Utrecht, Caravaggism and Europe, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht and Munich 2018-2019, p. 184.