• Commissioned by the sitter's husband Mathias Schwartz (1497– c. 1574) to commemorate her birthday on the 21st August 1542;
• Possibly Ferdinand August Hartmann (probably the painter Christian Ferdinand Hartmann (1774–1842), Dresden, together with the companion portrait of the sitter's husband;
• By descent to Johann Gottlob von Quandt (1787–1859), Dresden;
• Von Ritzenberg collection, Schloss Nischwitz, near Wurzen, Saxony, until 1870;
• Richard Freiherr von Friesen (1808–1884), Dresden, together with pendant;
• His posthumous sale, Cologne, Lempertz and Heberle, 26 March 1885, lot 3, for DM 6,500;
• There acquired by Dr. Martin Schubart (1840–1899), Dresden and later Munich, together with pendant;
• His posthumous sale, Munich, Helbing, 23 October 1899, lot 3, together with pendant for DM 51,000;
• There acquired by Colnaghi, London;
• Leopold Hirsch
• sale at Christie’s, New York, 29 January 2014, lot 163
• sold at Sothebys’s, London, 05 July 2017, lot 7

• Munich, Glaspalast, VI. Internationale Kunstausstellung. Alte Meisterwerke, 1894;
• Munich, Köningliche Kunstausstellungs-Gebäude, 1895, no. 2;
• London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Early Gwrman Art, 1906, no. 27;
• Possibly Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, in about 1969;
• Augsburg, Rathaus and Zeughaus, Die welt im Umbruch: Augsburg zwischen renaissance und Barock, 28 June – 28 September 1980, no. 45.

Дата вверху справа:

a pair of paintings

• 
  Matthäus Schwarz (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza)
• 
  Barbara Schwarz (Частное собрание

  institution QS:P195,Q768717

  )