W. Spemann, Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Kgl. Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1903, p. 41, cat. no. 130 (as Style of Pieter Brueghel the Younger);
T. von Frimmel, 'Reisenotizen aus der Stuttgarter Galerie', in Blätter für Gemäldekunde, Vienna 1907, III, p. 116, cat. no. 130 (as Pieter Baltens);
K. Lange-Tübingen, Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Kgl. Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1907, p. 97, cat. no. 130 (as Style of Pieter Brueghel the Younger), and p. 287 (with Theodor von Frimmel’s opinion, as Pieter Balten);
Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Kgl. Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1917, p. 14, cat. no. 130 (as Style of Pieter Brueghel the Younger);
Katalog der Staatsgalerie zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1931, p. 24 (as Pieter Brueghel the Younger);
Katalog der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1957, pp. 28-29 (as Pieter Baltens?);
G.T. Faggin, ‘De genre-schilder Marten van Cleef’, in Oud Holland, vol. 80, 1965, reproduced fig. 12 (as after Marten van Cleve);
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 350, reproduced p. 351, fig. 216 (as Marten van Cleve);
Museumskataloge Graz, 1994, p. 101 (according to Ertz 2014);
S.J. Kostyshyn, A reintroduction of the life and work of Peeter Baltens alias Custodis of Antwerp (1527–1584), doctoral diss., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1994, cat. no. 112-A, reproduced fig. 158 (as Marten van Cleve or Workshop);
A. Orrock, 'Homo ludens: Pieter Bruegel’s Children’s Games and the Humanist Educators', in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 4, no. 2 (Summer 2012), p. 30, note 64;
K. Ertz, Marten van Cleve 1524–1581. Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Lingen 2014, pp. 43 and 169, cat. no. 74 (with incorrect image reproduced; as Marten van Cleve).