Style of Jacob Backer – Portrait of an Old Woman – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435597
When this panel was in the Kann and Havemeyer collections, it was highly regarded as a Rembrandt. The picture held its place in Rembrandt catalogues through Valentiner’s unreliable corpus of 1931, after which the work was dropped from scholarly discussions for fifty years
One gains a very different impression of Backer’s manner from the tronies of old
