W. von Bode, Verzeichnis der National wertvollen Kunstwerke, Berlin 1927, cat. no. 15 (as Bellini);
P. Hendy, 'The Christ Carrying the Cross at Fenway Court', in The Burlington Magazine, April 1930, p. 197 (as said to be a period version of the panel in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston);
P. Zampetti, Giorgione e i Giorgioneschi, Venice 1955, exh. cat., pp. 92–93, no. 40 bis, reproduced (as circle of Bellini);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, 1957, vol. I, p. 33, reproduced vol. II, fig. 633 (as Bellini);
S. Bottari, Tutta la Pittura di Giovanni Bellini, Milan 1963, vol. II, under no. 100 (as a Giorgionesque version of the painting in Toledo);
R. Ghiotto and T. Pignatti, L'opera completa di Giovanni Bellini, Milan 1969, p. 103, under no. 156 (as a copy);
F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Venice 1959, vol. I, pp. 45–46, under no. 151, vol. II, reproduced p. 248, fig. 261 (as a copy of the painting in Toledo, possibly by Bartolomeo Veneto);
A. Tempestini, Giovanni Bellini, catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence 1992, p. 226, under no. 80 (as a copy of the painting in Rovigo);
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Giovanni Bellini by Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco and Giovanni C. F. Villa (as Bellini).