The sitter [b. 1790] until her death;[1] by inheritance to her goddaughter, Mariana García Soler, Madrid;[2] after her death, sold by her husband Dr. Sota to Don José Joaquin Herrero, Madrid;[3] Dr. James Simon [1851-1932], Berlin, by 1908;[4] Count Paalen, Berlin; Heinrich Sklarz, Berlin, by 1923;[5] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[6] purchased 21 February 1930 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington; deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA. [1] J. Valverde Madrid, "El Retrato de doña Sabasa García por Goya," _Goya_ no. 177 (1983): 109. [2] Elizabeth du Gué Trapier, _Goya and His Sitters_, New York, 1964: 55, no. 59; Valverde Madrid 1983, 108-109. The provenance card (in NGA curatorial files) for Herrero calls him Don José Juan (rather than Joaquin) Herrero. [3] Detlev Freiherrn von Hadeln, "Die Porträtausstellung des Kaiser Friedrich Museens Verein," _Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte_ 44 (1908-1909): 203, repro. 197. For more information about Simon, see Wilhelm Bode's introduction to _Collection Dr. James Simon de Berlin: Catalogue des tableaux, miniatures, bronzes, sculptures, ivoires, cires, bijoux, objets de vitrine, tapis, tapisseries, étoffes, et meubles_, Frederik Muller et Cie, Amsterdam, 25-26 October 1927). [4] August L. Mayer, _Francisco de Goya_, Munich, 1923: 206, no. 499. [5] _Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America_, New York, 1941: 235. [6] David Finley notebook, in NGA Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.