Raffaellino Motta, called Raffaellino da Reggio

Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris,

his sale, Paris, 10 April - 13 May 1741, part of lot 636 (lot divisé adjugé en partie à Agar pour 7 livres 11 sols et Joullain pour 9 livres 12 sols comme'Seize,idem [Jerôme Mucian], dont l'Entrée de Jesus-Christ à Jerusalem, & quelques Païsages');

Charles-François de Calvière (1693-1777), marquis de Calvière, 

his mount with the attribution in pen and brown ink: 'Jerome Mutian de Bresse fondat^r de Lecole R__^ne',

thence by descent,

his sale, Paris, Christie's, 'Dessins Anciens de l'Ancienne Collection du Marquis de Calvière', 17 December 2003, lot 3 (as Girolamo Muziano and Attributed to Sir Peter Paul Rubens)

J. Marciari, 'Raffaellino da Reggio in the Vatican', Burlington Magazine, 2006, pp. 189-190, reproduced p. 188, fig. 3.4 (in colour), p. 189, note 11;

M.S. Bolzoni, 'The Drawings of Raffaellino Motta da Reggio', Master Drawings, vol. 54 (2), 2016, p. 160, p. 194, cat. no. A 50, reproduced fig. 19;

A. Bigi Iotti and G. Zavatta, Raffaellino da Reggio (1550-1578). Tracce di una biografia artistica, Reggio Emilia 2008, p. 71, note 183, reproduced p. 72, fig. 34