This oval portrait of an unidentified woman, painted in 1633 during Rembrandt's early and highly successful years in Amsterdam, shows the crisp finish and careful attention to costume and lace that characterized his commissioned portraiture before the looser handling of his late style emerged. Oil on wood, the oval format was a fashionable choice among Amsterdam patrons of the period and required a different compositional discipline than the rectangular canvas. Along with a companion self-portrait also in the collection, this work entered the Metropolitan through the Benjamin Altman bequest of 1913. Scion regards paired or grouped acquisitions of this sort, where provenance can be cross-checked across multiple related works from a single source, as offering an unusually high degree of documentary confidence.