[1] It is now in the Hermitage Museum,[2] and if it is an autograph work, it is the only painting by Goya in a Russian collection.

It seems to have been commissioned by the subject's son Antonio Gil y Zárate in 1811 after her death and probably forms a reworking of Goya's earlier larger 1805 portrait of her.

It remained in Spain until 1900, when it was sold in New York City.

It passed through various dealers and owners before being acquired by the Knoedler Gallery for $60,000 from an heir of Marshall Field, a department-store magnate in Chicago.

[3] In 1972, Hammer donated it to the Hermitage,[2] claiming it was worth $1,000,000.