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The Jolly Drinker
Also titled De vrolijke drinker
Judith Leyster (Haarlem, 1609–1660)
1629
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: height 107.7 cm x width 103 cm x depth 8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This drinker shows off his empty jug, his cheeks flushed from alcohol. Judith Leyster, Haarlem’s only female master painter, was known for these kinds of paintings. Stylistically similar to the work of her fellow townsman Frans Hals, the painting was long attributed to him. Her monogram was not discovered until 1893, located above the jug on the right: JL with a star.
