G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichniss der in Deutschland vorhandene Olbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, vol. II, Berlin 1864, p. 21 (as A. Leduc);
G.F. Waagen, Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien , vol. I, Vienna 1867, p. 308, cat. no. 13 (as A. le Duc);
W. Bode, Studien zur Geschichte der Holländischen Malerei, Braunschweig 1883, p. 139;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederlandisches Kunstlerlexikon, vol. I, Amsterdam 1906, p. 433;
K. Lilienfeld, "Duck (Duyck), Jacob," in Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler, U. Thieme and F. Becker (eds.), vol. X, Leipzig 1914, p. 40;
W. Drost, Handbuch fur Kunstwissenschaft, Barockmalerei in den Germanischen ländern, Wildpark-Potsdam 1926, p. 190;
K. Wilczek, Katalog der Graf Czernin"schen Gem ä ldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1936, pp. 33-34, cat. no. 239;
J.A. Spicer et. al., Masters of Light, Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age , exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London 1997, pp. 235-236, reproduced fig. 2;
N. Salomon, Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting, Doornspijk 1998, pp. 43, 50, cat. no. 78B and 78c, (as two different paintings), reproduced pl. IV and fig. 9;
J. Rosen, "The Dutch Guardroom Scene of the Golden Age: A Definition" in Artibus et Historiae 27, no. 53 (2006), p.173 note 27;
R. Juffinger and I. Walderdorff, Czernin: Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Vienna 2015, p. 62, reproduced;
J. Rosen, Jacob Duck c. 1600-1667, Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam 2017, p. 127, cat. no. 20A, reproduced.