Leyster specialized in genre scenes, along with portraits and still lives. She taught students while running her own workshop and selling her works. She became the first successful woman painter in the Netherlands during the height of Dutch art, known as the Dutch Golden Age. Judith Leyster, however, was a working artist at the age of eighteen. įor women during this time, being a painter was unusual. Many of the elements in the painting are foreshortened in order to feel closer and like they are coming into the viewer's space. The artist and the viewer are very close in space.
The figure she is painting is borrowed from a different work and was perhaps never actually painted as a single figure.Ĭritics have found a sense of "Baroque closeness" in this painting. She is dressed in what must have been her best clothes, which in reality she is unlikely to have risked near wet oil paint. Though Leyster looks very relaxed, the composition is to some extent an artificial confection. In 2016 a second self-portrait was found, dating from around 1653. The style is indeed comparable to that of Hals, Haarlem's most famous portraitist. It was attributed for centuries to Frans Hals and was only properly attributed to Judith Leyster upon acquisition by the museum in 1949. It was offered in 1633 as a masterpiece to the Haarlem Guild of St. Self-portrait by Judith Leyster is an Dutch Golden Age painting in oils now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
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