Stamp, in black, right edge: Adolphe Schuster and Count Gelosi (Lugt 545) Stamp, in black, lower center: [unidentified collector, possibly Austrian] (Lugt 622)

Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: B. Castiglione Inscribed, in pencil, upper right, verso: N87 | S83 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right, verso: N.87 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower left center: Castillion

Adolphe Schuster and Count Gelosi [or Gelozzi] (Turin, Italy). unidentified collector (possibly Austria). C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad)

September 1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 284-285, no. A25.

Italian; after Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Noah Directing Animals into the Ark, late 17th century, red chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR57.