Focus on Old Woman Reading and discuss the abstract.
Old Woman Reading, also known as Old Woman Reading a Lectionary, is an oil painting by the Dutch painter Gerrit Dou, made c. 1631–1632. In the past the work was attributed to Rembrandt and was titled Rembrandt's Mother, but this attribution has long been rejected. The portrait has been part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, since November 1912.
Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Gerrit Dou Rembrandt