This warm and welcoming self-portrait by Dutch master Judith Leyster is a gallery favorite. Join me while I talk about how this remarkable woman accomplished what few women artists did in her time only to disappear from history until an English court case began her revival.
We’ll discover the reason why her impractical outfit served a larger purpose and her clever two-birds-with-one-stone marketing technique.
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SHOW NOTES
“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas
youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo
Episode theme is “Concerto for 2 Flutes in C major, RV 533 – III. Allegro” by Antonio Vivaldi performed by the Orchestra Gli Armonici
https://musopen.org/music/3613-concerto-for-2-flutes-in-c-major-rv-533/
Self-Portrait information
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., “Judith Leyster/Self-Portrait/c. 1630,” Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/37003 (accessed February 12, 2018).
https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/leyster-self-portrait.html
Court case information
Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland’s Golden Age, by Frima Fox Hofrichter, Doornspijk, 1989, Davaco Publishers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Leyster#Leyster_and_Frans_Hals
Slow Art Day
http://www.slowartday.com
