LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.33 in. (74.50 cm.) (height) by 24.88 in. (63.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Guildhall, 1893. London, Guildhall, Catalogue of the Exhibition of a Selection of Works by Early and Modern Painters of the Dutch School, 1903, no. 185, as 'Frans Hals and Lyster (sic.)' (lent by G. Donaldson). Amsterdam, Frederick Muller, Tentoonstelling van Oude Meesters, 1918, no. 7. The Hague, Mauritshuis, on loan, 1935-40 (lent by Mrs. van den Honert, Blaricum). The Hague, International Red Cross Headquarters, on loan (lent by Mrs. van den Honert, Blaricum). Zurich, Kunsthaus, Holländer des 17. Jahrhunderts, 4 November-20 December 1953, no. 78 (lent by Mrs. van den Honert, Blaricum). Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Mostra di Pittura Olandese del Seicento, 4 January- 14 February 1954, no. 80 (lent by Mrs. van den Honert, Blaricum). Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; West Berlin, Gemäldegalerie; and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, 18 March-18 November 1984, no. 61 (lent by Mr and Mrs P.L. Galjart, The Netherlands). Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Judith Leyster: A Dutch Master and Her World, 16 May- 22 August 1993, no. 5. Washington, National Gallery of Art; Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Judith Leyster, 1609-1660, 21 June 2009-9 May 2010.

Literature:

'The Dutch Exhibition at the Guildhall, The Old Masters', The Burlington Magazine, II, 1903, p. 55, as 'catalogued as being collaborations by Hals and Judith Leyster, but beyond the potent influence of the former they have nothing to do with him'. J. Harms, 'Judith Leyster: Ihr Leben and ihr Werk', Oud-Holland, XLIV, 1927, pp. 145-7 and 237, fig. 8. G.D. Gratama, 'Het Portret van Judith Leyster door Frans Hals', Oud-Holland, XLVII, 1930, p. 71. S. Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1974, III, p. 116, L2-2. F.F. Hofrichter in A. Sutherland Harris and L. Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles, 1976, p. 139. F.F. Hofrichter, 'Judith Leyster's 'Self Portrait': Ut Pictura Poesis', Essays in Northern European Art. Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday, Doornspijk, 1983, pp. 107-8. C. Moiso-Diekamp, Das Pendant in der holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt, 1987, p. 361. F.F. Hofrichter, Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age, Doornspijk, 1989, pp. 25, 34, 41-2, no. 9, pl. III.

Provenance:

Sir George Donaldson, London, circa 1903. Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, April 1908. with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1910. R.W. Pettigrew; Christie's, London, 8 February 1929, lot 129 (175 gns. to Wiss). M. van den Honert, Blaricum, and by descent to the following, Dr. and Mrs. P.L. Galjart, Soest, by 1984, until 1986. with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1987. with Noortman, London and Maastricht, 6 January 1988, from whom acquired.