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4/5/2025, 8:58:07 AM
Self-portrait by Judith Leyster (c. 1630). This one has an interesting backstory:
>For centuries, this painting was attributed to Frans Hals and only properly attributed to Leyster upon acquisition by the National Gallery of Art in 1949, over 300 years later.
>Though Leyster, age 21, looks very relaxed, the composition is to some extent an artificial confection. She is dressed in what must have been her best clothes, which in reality she is unlikely to have risked near wet oil paint. The figure she is painting is borrowed from a different work and was perhaps never actually painted as a standalone figure.
>For centuries, this painting was attributed to Frans Hals and only properly attributed to Leyster upon acquisition by the National Gallery of Art in 1949, over 300 years later.
>Though Leyster, age 21, looks very relaxed, the composition is to some extent an artificial confection. She is dressed in what must have been her best clothes, which in reality she is unlikely to have risked near wet oil paint. The figure she is painting is borrowed from a different work and was perhaps never actually painted as a standalone figure.
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