Shown from about the waist up, a woman with smooth, pale skin sits in a chair facing our right in front of a canvas on an easel in this vertical portrait. She leans onto her right elbow, which rests on the seat back. She turns her face to look at us, lips slightly parted. Her dress has a black bodice and a deep rose-pink skirt and sleeves. She wears a translucent white cap over her hair, which has been tightly pulled back. A stiff, white, plate-like ruff encircles her neck and reaches to her shoulders. She holds a paintbrush in her right hand and clutches about twenty brushes, a wooden paint…
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Self-Portrait

Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609 - 1660)

c. 1630

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 74.6 × 65.1 cm (29 3/8 × 25 5/8 in.) ; framed: 99.7 × 91.12 × 8.89 cm (39 1/4 × 35 7/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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