Old Woman Reading, Probably the Prophetess Anna
Rembrandt van Rijn (1631)
A solitary reader bends over a monumental book, its pages and her guiding finger catching the only concentrated light. Rembrandt van Rijn turns this quiet act into a scene of <strong>revelation</strong>, proposing the sitter as <strong>Anna the prophetess</strong>, whose lifelong devotion is embodied in the weight and glow of Scripture <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[4]</sup>.
