Judith Leyster

Self-Portrait



Judith Leyster - Self-Portrait



Judith Leyster
Self-Portrait
c. 1630
74.4 x 65.3 cm.
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Frima Fox Hofrichter, Judith Leyster, Doornspijk, 1989, nr. 21

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 154-159
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 376

Literature
Larry Silver, Rembrandt's Holland, London, 2018, fig. 59
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 336
Steven Nadler, The portraitist, Chicago; London, 2022, fig. 47



Provenance

Possibly the painting identified as a painting by Frans Hals depicting his daughter at the easel that appeared in four London sales between 1810 and 1812
E.M. Grainger, Hastings, Sussex
Mrs. Granger, Bexhil-on-Sea, East Sussex
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 16 April 1926, nr. 115 purchased by E. Smith, probably for a London dealer
private collection, New York, in 1928
with Ehrich Galleries, New York, purchased 9 May 1929 by Bliss
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D.C.
gift 1949 to NGA



Other works by Judith Leyster


Judith Leyster Serenade
Serenade
1629

Judith Leyster Carousing Couple
Carousing Couple
1630

Judith Leyster Tulip
Tulip
1643

Judith Leyster Children with a Cat and an Eel
Children with a Cat and an Eel

Judith Leyster Concert
Concert