Literature

Collection catalogues
Colin Eisler, Paintings in the Hermitage, New York, 1990, p. 88
Natalya Gritsay and Natalya Babina, The State Hermitage Museum catalogue of Flemish painting, New Haven, 2008, nr. 297

Exhibitions

1988 Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Hermitage, Nr. 45

Iconclass

42B41 Pero suckling Cimon ('Caritas romana')

Other works by Peter Paul Rubens

Allegory of Sight
1617

Allegory of Touch
1617-18

Allegory of Hearing
1617-18

Madonna in a Flower Garland
c. 1616-18

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Rosary