Attributed to Jacob Backer – Old Woman in an Armchair – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435596
Like a good number of works formerly attributed to Rembrandt, this large canvas was included in catalogues of the artist’s work through Bauch’s corpus of 1966 and then rejected by Gerson (1968, 1969). In 1923, however, Van Dyke, no doubt responding to the frequent suggestion of Frans Hals’s influence on the painting, assigned it to that master or to the „Hals School
Stuttgart, 1906, p. 397, ill. p. 145. Adolf Rosenberg.
