Judith Jans Leyster, a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre scenes, portraits, and still lifes (often spelled Leijster), was baptized on July 28, 1609, and she passed away on February 10, 1660.
Her work was well regarded by her contemporaries, but after her death, it was lost entirely.
How many paintings did Judith Leyster paint?
Judith Leyster created the painting A Youth with a Jug in 1629. Around 1941, the artist completed five paintings that were in the possession of Georges Wildenstein, the owner of a Parisian gallery in Buenos Aires. Currently, this most well-known painting is housed in a private collection. And likes of A Self-portrait by Judith Leyster, The Proposition, Serenade, A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel, A Youth with a Jug, Jolly Toper, The Last Drop, Merry Trio, Standing Cavalier, Young man playing the lute, Laughing Children with a Cat, and Still life with apples and grapes in a wicker basket, with a roemer and a ewer on a blue draped table
Where are Judith Leyster paintings?
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC are just a few of the museums that display Judith Leyster’s artwork.
Leyster’s creations were admitted to the Rijksmuseum’s “Gallery of Honor” in March 2021. The first female artists to be shown in the gallery are Leyster, Gesina ter Borch, and Rachel Ruysch.
She was the subject of a Google Doodle on December 19, 2022, in the Netherlands, Iceland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
