1609-60
Dutch painter. She painted genre scenes, portraits and still-lifes, and she may also have made small etchings; no drawings by her are known. She specialized in small intimate genre scenes, usually with women seated by candlelight, and single half-length figures set against a neutral background.
The Proposition
The Proposition
Painting ID:: 30559
mk68
Oil oncanvas
The Hague,Mauritshuis
1631
Netherlands
mk68
Oil oncanvas
The Hague,Mauritshuis
1631
Netherlands
LEYSTER, Judith Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1609-1660
Dutch painter. A brewer's daughter, she had gained membership in the Haarlem painters' guild by age 24. Many of her known works, primarily portraits, genre paintings, and still lifes, were formerly attributed to her male contemporaries. Though the influence of Frans Hals is clear, she was also interested in the Baroque style of the Utrecht school. She embraced a greater range of subjects than other Dutch painters of the era The Proposition nn07
1631
Oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague