Monogrammed upper right, dedicated and dated: HBSL [Herr Beckmann seiner Liebsten] 05
Max Beckmann. Die frühen Bilder. Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, 1982, Kat.-Nr. 17, Abb. S. 67, Tf. 18
Paul Zech and Margarethe Zech, born Beckmann, divorced Lüdecke, Wangerin (Pomerania) / Bischofsheim (Rhön) / Hildegard von der Brinken, born Lüdecke, daughter from first marriage of Margarethe Zech, Munich (died 1959) / Georg Schäfer collection, Schweinfurt (acquired 1959 from resp. via Erhard Göpel, to 1975) / Private Collection, Southern Germany