 In 1974 Seymour Slive listed both paintings as pendants of each other and remarked that they were first catalogued as "A Man in Spanish clothes" and "A Woman at knee-length" that were taken to Paris in by Jerome in 1806 and returned in 1814, presumably at the end of Napoleon's reign.Slive agreed with the traditional date of 1620 but felt that it showed similarities with Hals' militia group of 1616.He agreed with Numa S. Trivas that it was painted towards the close of the decade.