F.S. Baldinucci, Vita di Luca Giordano pittore napoletano, c.153 v., manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence (Codex palatine 565), circa 1710-21, 'fatti i modelli in dodici quadri di buona grandezza, che si conservano in d.o. Palazzo' (published by O. Ferrari in 'Una Vita inedita di Luca Giordano', Napoli nobilissima, V, no. 4, July-August 1966, p. 130). F.R. Vernaccia, Galleria Riccardiana dipinta de Luca Giordano.. incisa da Lagigno figlio, Florence, 1822, pp. 17-20, pl. IV. T. Ellis, Neapolitan Baroque and Rococo Painting, exhibition catalogue, Barnard Castle, County Durham, 1962, under no. 55, as 'lost'. O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1966, I, p. 100; II, p. 113, as 'lost'. P.& D. Colnaghi, ed., Paintings by Old Masters, exhibition catalogue, London, 1968, under no. 2, as 'lost'. W.H. Wilson, 'An Unpublished Giordano Bozzetto', in Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions 1966-1967, Cambridge, 1968, pp. 28, 30, 32, 34, cited under note 10, as 'destroyed or missing'; the engraving illustrated p. 31, fig. 4. F. Büttner, Die Galleria Riccardiana in Florenz, Frankfurt, 1972, pp. 43-44, 76, 194, note 16, and pp. 239-240, as 'lost'; the engraving illustrated p. 270, fig. 31. S. Rossen, et. al., The Twilight of the Medici. Late Baroque Art in Florence 1670-1743, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 1974, pp. 261, 264, as 'lost'. F. Borroni Salvadori, 'L'Esposizione del 1705 a Firenze', Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XIX, no. 3, Florence, 1975, pp. 393, 397. R. Millen, 'Luca Giordano in Palazzo Riccardi, II: The Oil Sketches', Kunst des Barock in der Toskana, Studien zur Kunst unter den letzten Medici, Munich, 1976, pp. 297, 303, as 'lost'. S. Meloni Trkulja, 'I Due primi cataloghi di mostre fiorentine', in Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Ugo Procacci, Milan, 1977, II, pp. 579, 582. O. Ferrari, in the exhibition catalogue, Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, Naples, 1984, pp. 318-319, as 'with Wildenstein, New York'. F. Büttner, 'All'usanza moderna ridotto: gli interventi dei Riccardi', in Il Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Firenze, Florence, 1990, p. 160, cited under note 86, as 'lost'. G. Finaldi and M. Kitson, eds., Discovering the Italian Baroque. The Denis Mahon Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, 1997, pp. 80-81, fig. 27, as 'in the Frederick Field collection'. O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano: l'opera completa, Naples, 2000, I, pp. 87, 315, no. A387I; II, fig. 509, as 'previously with Wildenstein, New York'. S. Cassani, ed., Luca Giordano 1634-1705, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 2001, pp. 236, 240, cited under note 31, as 'formerly in the Frederick Field collection, Beverly Hills'. O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano: Nuove ricerche e inediti, Naples, 2003, p. 74, as 'of the F.W. Field collection, Beverly Hills'.