BACKER, Jacob Adriaensz.
(b. 1608, Harlingen, d. 1651, Amsterdam)

Portrait of an Old Woman

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Oil on wood, 71 x 61 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This portrait is one of the many paintings formerly attributed to Rembrandt. The attribution to Jacob Backer is not certain, the painting could be a copy of a last portrait by Backer, or the work of a follower executed in the style of Backer.