 The painting was dated c. 1446 by Wolfgang Schöne in the 1930s, mainly by matching the style and fashion of her clothing to contemporary trends.In the early 20th century the dating and authorship of works then attributed to Christus were challenged.Max Friedländer proposed a number of dates and an ordering of works in the 1957 volume of his "Early Netherlandish painting", but many of his assumptions were discounted by Otto Pächt just a few years later.