The woman with the white headdress appears almost in the same form and style in the signed picture in the Brükenthal Museum, Sibiu (Hermannstadt) and in that recorded in a private collection, Germany, 1959 (photographs in the R.K.D., The Hague).

For biographical information on the artist, see A. Bredius, Harmen Hals te Vianen, Oud Holland, 1909, p. 196, and A. Bredius, Archiefsprokkels betreffende Harmen Hals, Oud Holland, 1923, p. 62
See colour illustration