[2] Modigliani met Jeanne Hébuterne, a 19-year-old art student, in the spring of 1917, through the Russian sculptor Chana Orloff.

Soon Modigliani ended his relationship with the English poet and art critic Beatrice Hastings, and shortly later Hébuterne and Modigliani moved together into a studio on the Rue de la Grande Chaumière.

In March 1918 Modigliani and Hébuterne moved to Nice where their daughter Jeanne was born in November 1918.

Shortly after Modigliani's death, while being eight month pregnant, Hébuterne committed suicide by throwing herself from the window of her parents’ apartment.

[6] According to Marc Restellini publications, the painting belonged to Roger Dutilleul from 1922 to 1940, and since that time, it is in the property of the private collection in Paris.