Anna Wijmer was the mother of Jan Six, the painting has always been in the possession of the Six family. For a while it was considered to be painted by someone from Rembrandt's workshop, but it is now accepted as a Rembrandt, with assistance from a workshop member.
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 728
Bredius 358
Bauch 499
Gerson 235
Bredius/Gerson 358
Tümpel A112 (workshop?)
Corpus III C 113 (workshop)
Corpus VI 180
Literature
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, figs. 25, 101
Other works by Rembrandt
The Flight into Egypt
1634
1634
Bust of an old man
c. 1630
c. 1630
Self Portrait as Zeuxis Laughing
c. 1662-64
c. 1662-64
Study of an Old Man with a Beard
1659
1659