Since it entered the Museum, this picture has been attributed to Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1567-1641), but this ascription cannot be sustained. The type of modelling and the treatment of the light make it more reminiscent of likenesses painted by Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy (1588-1650), whose bourgeois portraiture followed in the line first established by his master, Cornelis van der Voort (1576-1624). The kind of cap and ruff depicted suggest this work was painted in the 1620s.

Aterido, Martínez Cuesta and Pérez Preciado (2004) suggest this is one of the female portraits listed in the inventory of the Duke of Arco`s stately home in 1745 (Posada Kubissa, T.: Pintura holandesa en el Museo Nacional del Prado. Catálogo razonado, 2009, p. 309).