The work is generally dated to the same years of the Camera degli Sposi, or anyway from the 1460s–1470s, because of the similarities of the subject with one of the characters portrayed there.
Portrait in the Camera degli Sposi
The panel is documented for the first time in 1906, in a private collection at Gaál, Hungary. Later it was part of collections in Budapest, Paris and then New York City. In 1950 it was acquired by the Samuel H. Kress, becoming part of the National Collection.
Sources
Pauli, Tatjana (2001). Mantegna. Milan: Leonardo Arte.
