A. Morassi, Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice 1973, vol. 1, p. 452, cat. no. 764, vol. 2, reproduced fig. 700 (dating this painting a little later than the version in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, which he assigns to Guardi's mature period);
L.R. Bortolatto, L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi, Milan 1974, p. 129, cat. no. 655, reproduced p. 127;
D. Succi, Francesco Guardi, Itinerario dell'avventura artistica, Milan 1993, p. 147-148, reproduced fig. 145;
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 92, reproduced (as "Capriccio");
B.A. Kowalczyk (ed.), Canaletto Guardi: Les deux maîtres de Venise, exhibition catalogue, Musée Jacquemart-André, Brussels 2012, p. 184, under cat. no. 50 reproduced in color fig. 2;
M. Delon (ed.), The Libertine: The Art of Love in Eighteenth-Century France, New York 2013, reproduced in color p. 342.