This work was registered with the number 227 in the 1794 inventory of paintings at the country estate of the Duke of el Arco (a part of the testament of Charles III), where it was identified as a portrait of painter Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo. The 1920 painting catalog of the Museo del Prado lists it, instead, as a self-portrait by Esteban March but the inclusion in Dibujos españ