G. Bourcard, Catalogue de dessins, gouaches, estampes, tableaux du XVIIIe siècle , Paris 1893, p. 190 (as a sketch);
P. de Nolhac, J.-H. Fragonard , Paris 1906, p. 116 (as a sketch);
G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard , London 1960, pp. 28, 308, no. 487,
reproduced fig. 200 (as a sketch);
Wallace Collection Catalogues: Pictures and Drawings , London 1968, p. 117;
D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L'opera completa di Fragonard , Milan 1972, p. 109, no. 518, reproduced fig. 518;
J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, III: French before 1815 , London 1985, p. 155 (as a sketch for the Wallace Collection painting);
J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, vie et œuvre-catalogue complet des peintures , Fribourg and Paris 1987, p. 332, no. 374, and p. 332, under no. 373, reproduced p. 212, fig. 263;
D. Sutton, ‘Selected Prefaces: Jean-Honoré Fragonard: The World as Illusion', Apollo , CXXV, February 1987, 300, pp. 112-113, reproduced p. 111, fig. 10;
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'œuvre peint de Fragonard , Paris 1989, p. 118, no. 409;
C. Bailey, in 1789: French Art During the Revolution , exh. cat., New York 1989, pp. 190-94, no. 190, reproduced;
A. Molotiu, in Fragonard's Allegories of Love , exh. cat., Los Angeles 2007, pp. 37, 40-41, reproduced p. 40, fig. 30 (as a sketch).