Signed upper left: CÉSAR KLEIN. Signed on the upper stretcher bar with brush in black: CÉSAR KLEIN. There too inscribed in pen in brown on a label: N[?] 626. Fritz Gurlitt Berlin Gemälde v Cesar Klein Madon[n]a mit dem Kinde / 12.10.17 [... illegibly signed]. On the left stretcher bar a number label of the Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, inscribed in pencil: 1218