Judith Leyster

Children with a Cat and an Eel



Judith Leyster - Children with a Cat and an Eel



Judith Leyster
Children with a Cat and an Eel
59.5 x 48.7 cm.
Oil on panel
Signed on the right, above the girl's shoulder: iudiyh [sic] followed by a star
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Frima Fox Hofrichter, Judith Leyster, Doornspijk, 1989, nr. 44

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 227-228, plate 193
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 378

Literature
Steven Nadler, The portraitist, Chicago; London, 2022, fig. 46



Provenance

[John Hotchkis] sale, London, 8 July 1910, nr. 30, bought by Rutley (Reynolds Gallery, London)
Mrs Holbrooke sale, London, 17 February 1939, nr. 98, bought by Vicars
National Gallery, London, C.F. Leach Bequest, 1943
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External links

National Gallery, London Accession number NG5417

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