It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The woman is looking at the viewer and is wearing a red bodice that is slightly open to reveal a pearl necklace.

Hofstede de Groot thought he saw a portrait of Rembrandt's wife Hendrickje Stoffels and wrote; "719.

Her red gown is cut out at the bosom, and the pleated chemisette is open ; on her bare breast lies a pearl necklace.

Apparently Wilhelm von Bode had seen the painting in London at the Duveen brothers and was convinced it was a Rembrandt.

After Hofstede de Groot's publication however, the attribution was challenged by John Charles Van Dyke, who felt this was the copy and not the other way around.