FOLLOWER OF REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN | A WOMAN WEEPING

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 14 December 2001, lot 31;

There acquired.

This composition derives from a painting by the circle of Rembrandt in the Detroit Institute of Art.¹ The Detroit picture is regarded by Professor Werner Sumowski as being an early work by Nicolaes Maes; an alternative attribution to Hoogstraten has also been proposed. 

1. Oil on panel, 21.3 by 16.8 cm., inv. no. 56.183. See https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/woman-weeping-58249