D.C. Miller, in The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, exhibition catalogue, New York/Washington 1986, pp. 414-415, cat. no. 139, reproduced p. 415 (as an autograph replica of the painting in Pallavicini collection, Rome);
B. Buscaroli Fabbri, Carlo Cignani: Affreschi, dipinti, disegni, Padua 1991, pp. 145-147, 289, 293, under cat. no. 30, reproduced p. 146 and color detail p. 30 (as one of the three versions of the painting in the Pallavicini collection);
L. Ficacci, in I cinque sensi nell'arte: Immagini del Sentire, exhibition catalogue, Italian edition, Milan 1996, pp. 272-273, reproduced;
L. Ficacci, in Los Cinco sentidos y el arte, exhibition catalogue, Spanish edition, Madrid 1997, pp. 278-279, reproduced.