Until 1641 this painting belonged to Alfonso Lòpez, a businessman and Cardinal Richelieu's agent in Amsterdam. Documented in the Imperial Gallery of Vienna after 1728, it was exchanged for another painting in the Uffizi in 1793. Over the years, unsuccessful attempts have been made to identify the woman portrayed, although the most probable hypothesis remains that it represents the mythological figure, Flora.
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