Originally in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, it was probably confiscated by the Nazi regime in the late 1930s to sell for foreign currency.
[1] The "list of art objects handed over to Reichsmarschall Herman Göring's collection" for 1942 shows Woman was received on 14 March that year by the Paris working group.
[3] After World War Two the work passed to the art dealer Änne Abels in Cologne,[3][2] who in 1950 sold it to Rudolf Ziersch (1867–1962), an entrepreneur and art collector from Barmen who had previously been president of the Bergischen Industrie- und Handelskammer Wuppertal-Remscheid and chairman of the Kunst- nd Museumsverein Wuppertal[4] Later in 1950 Ziersch donated the work to the Städtische Museum Wuppertal (now known as the Von der Heydt-Museum) to mark its fiftieth anniversary.
Netscher painted seven versions of the picture, which complicated the issue, though a number on the back of the work under discussion referred to the Alte Pinakothek.
In May 2014 Andriesse's heirs announced they would like to auction the work for charity at Christie's in New York, giving the proceedings to a cancer centre.