M. Rooses, ‘L'oeuvre de Rubens (Addenda)', Bulletin-Rubens , V, 1897, pp. 70-71, no. 401.
E.C. Siter, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures by the Old Masters , Philadelphia, 1904, no. 33, pl. 7.
A. Rosenberg, ed., P.P. Rubens. Des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst V) , Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1905, pp. 2, 463, 488, with incorrect provenance.
W.R. Valentiner, ‘Gemälde des Rubens in Amerika', Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , XXIII, 1912, p. 182, no. 1.
W. von Bode, ‘Kritik und Chronologie der Gemälde von Peter Paul Rubens', Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , XVI, 1905, p. 201.
R. Oldenbourg, ed., P.P. Rubens. Des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst V) , 4th ed., Berlin and Leipzig, 1921, pp. 440, 472, as ‘it cannot be assumed that Rubens himself executed or even designed this picture, which, according to the type, must be thought to have been created around 1615' (‘Es ist nicht anzunehmen, daß Rubens dieses Bild, das nach den Typen immerhin schon gegen 1615 entstanden zu denken ist, selber ausgefürt oder auch nur entworfen habe.')
G. Glück, Rubens, van Dyck und ihr Kreis , Vienna, 1933, p. 156, no. 2.
L. Burchard, ‘Nachträge', in Rubens, van Dyck und ihr Kreis , G. Glück, ed., Vienna, 1933, pp. 376, 391, citing Oldenbourg's opinion.
H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard . Part VIII: Saints , I, London and New York, 1973, pp. 118-119, no. 76, fig. 131, as ‘for the most part executed by Rubens's studio'; II, under Addenda and Corrigenda to Part VIII, I, p. 179, no. 76, as ‘entirely by Rubens's own hand'.
J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue , I, Princeton, 1980, pp. 505-506, under no. 369, citing Oldenbourg's opinion.
C. Wright, A Golden Age of Painting: Dutch, Flemish, German Paintings, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation , San Antonio, 1981, pp. 64-65.
M. Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo Completo , Milan, 1989, p. 181, no. 177.