Woman Looking For Fleas

given to the Art Institute, 1947.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th Centuries, 1941, cat. 28

Thomas Carr Howe, "Variety in the Work of Giuseppe Maria Crespi," The Pacific Art Review 1 (Summer 1941), p. 3, fig. 2 (ill. with wrong painting).

sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1939

Reportedly in private collection, Naples, before 1939 [letter from Arnold Seligmann, dated April 10, 1939, in curatorial file]. Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, 1939

Cremona, Italy, 1937 (not verified)

Mira Pajes Merriman, “The Paintings of Giuseppe Maria Crespi,” (Columbia Ph.D, 1986), Ann Arbor, University Microfilms, 1969, pp. 98, 296–97, no. 222.

John T. Spike, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the emergence of Genre Painting in Italy, exhib. cat. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1986), pp. 151, 154.

Mira Pajes Merriman, Giuseppe Maria Crespi (Milan, 1980), pp. 139, 306-7, no. 249 (ill.).

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), p. 59.

Pierre Rosenberg, "La femme à la puce de G. M. Crespi, un don des amis du Louvre," La revue du Louvre et des musées de France 1 (1971), p. 15, fig. 3.