Literature
J. Müller Hofstede, 'Beiträge zum zeichnerischen Werk von Rubens', Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, XXVII, 1965, p. 274, pl. 191 (as Peter Paul Rubens).
M. Jaffé, 'Exhibition for the Rubens Year - II', Burlington Magazine, CXX, 1978, p. 134 (as Rubens).
K. Renger, 'Review of Rubens Drawings and Sketches (The British Museum, London) and Peter Paul Rubens (Kunsthalle, Cologne)', Kunstchronik, XXXI, 1978, p. 143 (as Rubens's hand evident in the chalk, not in the wash or the pen work).
A.-M. Logan, 'Review of Book and Exhibitions: Rubens Exhibitions, 1977-78', Master Drawings, XVI, 1978, p. 425 (as not by Rubens).
J. Wood, Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Masters III: Artists working in Central Italy and France (Corpus Rubenianum, XXVI), Antwerp, 2011, R. 20, pp. 443-4 (as Rejected).
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 104, pl. 99 (as Rubens; catalogue by J. Giltaij).
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Kunsthalle Köln, Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640, 1977, I, no. 77 (as Rubens).