This composition is modelled after a full-length portrait of Mariana of Austria in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (inv. no. P001191). The present painting is documented in the museum's file as having once belonged to King Louis Philippe. It hung in the Louvre's Spanish gallery until its closure 1848 and was later included in his 1853 sale at Christie’s London (loc. cit.). According to August L. Mayer, writing in 1936, the painting sold in Theron Blakeslee’s 1915 sale and was acquired there by Albert Smith. Mayer gives the last line of provenance as Ehrich Galleries, though without a date, and does not cite a location for the portrait at the time of publication (loc. cit.). José López Rey published the painting in 1963, adding that Smith had sold it in New York, in 1921 and that it was on the New York art market again in 1936, though without naming Ehrich Galleries (loc. cit.). This last line was revised by Jeannine Baticle and Cristina Marinas in 1981, who published the painting as with Ehrich Galleries in 1936. We know from the Hispanic Society’s List of Paintings, however, that the portrait had already entered the museum’s collection by 1925. It seems likely, then, that both Lopez Rey and Baticle and Marinas based their last line of provenance on that of Mayer, assuming the painting to have been with Ehrich Galleries at the time of his publication in 1936.