List of paintings by Judith Leyster

Last updated July 20, 2024

The following is a list of paintings by Judith Leyster that are generally accepted as autograph by the Frima Fox Hofrichter catalog and other sources.

Title	Year	Size	Inventory nr.	Gallery	Location
Copy of Lute Player by Frans Hals	1628	65 cm x 58 cm	SK-A-134	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam
The Serenade	1629	45.5 cm x 35 cm	SK-A-2326	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam
Lute Player (copy of The Serenade)	1629	50 cm x 37 cm		Private collection	unknown
Jolly Toper (Peeckelharingh)	1629	89 cm x 85 cm	SK-A-1685	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam
Merry Drinker (Peeckelharingh)	1629	74 cm x 52 cm	801B	Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)	Berlin
Laughing Boy with Grapes in His Hat	1629	25.4 cm x 21 cm		Currier Museum of Art	Manchester, NH
Round Portrait of a Boy in a Beret	1629	16.6 cm x 16.3 cm	NM 3384	Nationalmuseum Stockholm	Stockholm
Merry Trio	1629	88 cm x 73.5 cm		Collection Nortman	London and Maastricht
The Last Drop	1629	89 cm x 73.7 cm	2033	Philadelphia Museum of Art – John G. Johnson Collection	Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
Rommelpot Player	1630	39.1 cm x30.5 cm	47-78	Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago
Merry Company of Three Boys with a Violin	1630	27.3 cm x 20.9 cm	1388	Nasjonalgalleriet	Oslo
Two Children with a Cat	1630			Private collection	unknown
Standing Cavalier (after the portrait of Willem van Heythuizen by Frans Hals)	1629–1631	62.5 cm x 42 cm		Royal Collection	unknown
Carousing Couple	1630	68 cm x 55 cm	RF 2131	Musée du Louvre	Paris
Girl and Boy at a Game of Kolf ^[1]	1630			Private collection	unknown
Head of a Boy in Profile	1630			National Gallery of Art	Washington D.C.
Man Offering Money to a Young Woman	1631	30.9 cm x 24.2 cm	564	Mauritshuis	The Hague
A Young Lady Holding a Lute with a Music Score on Her Lap in a Candlelit Interior	1631	31 cm x 22 cm		Private collection	London
Unequal Love	1631	80 cm x 65 cm	1086	Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica	Rome
A Game of Tric-Trac	1630	62.2 cm x 40.6 cm	1983.58	Worcester Art Museum	Worcester (Massachusetts)
The Concert	1633	60.9 cm x 86.3 cm		National Museum of Women in the Arts	Washington, D.C.
Portrait of a Man	1633			Private collection	unknown
Self-Portrait	1633	72.3 cm x 65.3 cm	1050	National Gallery of Art	Washington D.C.
A Youth with a Jug	1633	31 cm x 21.5 cm		Private collection	unknown
Violinist with a Skull and a Music Book	1633	26.7 cm x 30.4 cm	K1343	Bristol Art Gallery (not on display as of December 2021)	Bristol
David with the head of Goliath	1633	21 cm x 15 cm		Private collection	unknown
A Game Of Cards	1633	59 cm x 35 cm	07-I-51	Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen	Rouen
Boy Playing A Violin	1635	75 cm x 66 cm	49.11.32	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts	Richmond (Virginia)
The Fingernail Test (Boy with Glass and Lute)	1635	72.1 cm x 59 cm	14.40.604	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City
A Boy Reading	1635	76.3 cm x 63.4 cm		Oskar Reinhart collection	Winterthur
Head of a Child	1630–1640	35.5 cm x 30.4 cm		Fondation Rau pour le Tiers-Monde	Zürich
Young Flute Player	1635	73 cm x 62 cm	1120	Nationalmuseum Stockholm	Stockholm
Portrait of a Woman in Millstone Collar and Winged Diadem Cap	1635	53.5 cm x 41.5 cm	OS-65-8	Frans Hals Museum	Haarlem
Portrait of a Man with Beard and Ruff Collar	1635	68.5 cm x 56.5 cm		Private collection	unknown
The Lute Player (Facing Left)	1635	82.8 cm x 75 cm		Sir Alfred Beit collection	Blessington
Still Life with Apples and Grapes in a Wicker Basket on a Table	1635-1640	68 cm x 62.5 cm		Mrs. Barbara Johnson collection	Princeton, NJ
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel	1640	59.4 cm x 48.8 cm	5417	National Gallery	London
Early Brabantian Tulip (tulip book, 1643)	1643	38.2 cm x 27.2 cm		Frans Hals Museum	Haarlem
Flower Piece	1654	69.7 cm × 50.4 cm		Private collection	unknown

Sources

Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age , by Frima Fox Hofrichter, Doornspijk, 1989, Davaco Publishers, ISBN 90-70288-62-1
Judith Leyster paintings in the RKD

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The Lute Player is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1623 or 1624 now in the Louvre by the Haarlem painter Frans Hals, showing a smiling actor wearing a jester's costume and playing a lute.

Boy with a Glass and a Lute is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

The Fingernail Test is an oil-on-canvas Dutch Golden Age painting that has been attributed to either Frans Hals or Judith Leyster, painted in 1626 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Self-portrait by Judith Leyster is a Dutch Golden Age painting in oils now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. It was offered in 1633 as a masterpiece to the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. It was attributed for centuries to Frans Hals and was only properly attributed to Judith Leyster upon acquisition by the museum in 1949. The style is indeed comparable to that of Hals, Haarlem's most famous portraitist.

The Jolly Toper is a 1629 oil painting by the Dutch artist Judith Leyster in the collection of the Rijksmuseum that is on long-term loan to the Frans Hals Museum since 1959. It was acquired by the museum as a painting by Frans Hals and was attributed to Leyster by the researcher Juliane Harms in 1927.

The Serenade is a 1629 oil painting by Judith Leyster in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. It was attributed for centuries to Frans Hals until Wilhelm von Bode saw it in the Six collection in 1883. He noticed the prominent "J" in the signature, and attributed it to Jan Hals. This is one of seven paintings first properly attributed to Leyster by Hofstede de Groot ten years later in 1893.

The Merry Trio is an oil painting created in 1629 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster. It is now in a private collection. It was considered a work by Frans Hals until 1903.

The Last Drop is a c. 1629 oil painting by Judith Leyster in the John G. Johnson collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was regarded as a work by Frans Hals until 1903, when it was noticed that it is signed 'JL*' on the tankard.

A Youth with a Jug is a 1633 oil painting by Judith Leyster currently in a private collection.

Standing Cavalier is a painting by Judith Leyster in the Royal Collection. It is the only painting by Leyster with a provenance that reaches back to the 18th-century.

Young man playing the lute is an oil painting executed in 1624 by the Dutch Golden Age artist Judith Leyster. It is now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, and is a period copy of the same subject by Frans Hals. It was acquired by the museum as a painting by Frans Hals and was skipped by the researcher Juliane Harms in 1927, being finally attributed to Leyster by Seymour Slive in 1974.

The following is the list of 145 paintings indexed as autograph by Frans Hals, written by the art historian and Hals specialist Claus Grimm in 1989. The list is by catalogue number and is more or less in order of creation, starting from around 1610 when Hals began painting on his own. Most of these works are still considered autograph, though one has since been reattributed to Judith Leyster. In addition to this list, Grimm added comments and additional entries to Seymour Slive's lists of lost and doubtful paintings. He also rejected several Slive attributions, making his list is considerably shorter. The autograph catalogue entries are as follows:

A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel is a 1635 oil painting by Judith Leyster that is now in the National Gallery, London.

A Game of Tric-Trac is a painting by Judith Leyster from 1630.

Unequal Love is a painting made in about 1631 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster. It is in the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.

Last drop is often an allusion to the proverb "The last drop makes the cup run over". It may also refer to:

References

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v t e Judith Leyster
Paintings	List of paintings Copy of Lute Player by Frans Hals (c. 1624) Jolly Toper (1629) Merry Trio (1629) Serenade (1629) A Game of Tric-Trac (1630) Standing Cavalier (1630) The Proposition (1631) Unequal Love (c. 1631) A Youth with a Jug (1633) Self-portrait (c. 1633) A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel (1635) The Last Drop (c. 1639)
Possible attribution	The Fingernail Test (1626)
Related	Jan Miense Molenaer (husband)

v t e Lists of paintings
By gallery/ collection	Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Art Institute of Chicago El Greco Museum, Toledo Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem Frick Collection, New York Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples Hampton Court Palace, London Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent Indianapolis Museum of Art Louvre Museum, Paris Musée d'Orsay Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. National Gallery, London Los Angeles County Museum of Art Palatine Gallery, Florence Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Ukrainian Museums Web Gallery of Art, Internet
By artist	Pieter Coecke van Aelst Ivan Albright Albrecht Altdorfer Sophie Gengembre Anderson Sofonisba Anguissola Francis Bacon Giacomo Balla Banksy Jean-Michel Basquiat Frédéric Bazille Giovanni Bellini Frank Weston Benson Gian Lorenzo Bernini Albert Bierstadt Joseph Blackburn Arnold Böcklin Giovanni Boldini Hieronymus Bosch Sandro Botticelli François Boucher Eugène Boudin Valentin de Boulogne Ford Madox Brown Bronzino Pieter Bruegel the Elder Edward Burne-Jones Guido Cagnacci Gustave Caillebotte Canaletto Caravaggio Mary Cassatt Paul Cézanne Marc Chagall William Merritt Chase Gaetano Chierici Frederic Edwin Church Thomas Cole John Constable Adriaen Coorte Terence Cuneo John Steuart Curry Salvador Dalí Edward Thomas Daniell Jacques-Louis David Edgar Degas Marcel Duchamp Carolus-Duran Albrecht Dürer Anthony van Dyck Thomas Eakins James Ensor Jan van Eyck Caspar David Friedrich Fujishima Takeji Paul Gauguin Orazio Gentileschi Artemisia Gentileschi Luca Giordano Albert Gleizes Hugo van der Goes Vincent van Gogh Francisco Goya El Greco Hans Gude Frans Hals Bartholomeus van der Helst Catharina van Hemessen William Hogarth Hans Holbein the Younger Pieter de Hooch Edward Hopper Edward Robert Hughes John Ingleby Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Johan Jongkind Frida Kahlo Wassily Kandinsky Paul Klee Gustav Klimt Peder Severin Krøyer Philip de László Georges Lebacq Leonardo da Vinci Judith Leyster August Macke René Magritte Édouard Manet Masaccio Henri Matisse Victor Meirelles Jean Metzinger Michelangelo John Middleton Pierre Mignard John Everett Millais Claude Monet Water Lilies Alphonse Mucha Edvard Munch Elizabeth Murray Mikhail Nesterov Clara Peeters Robert Antoine Pinchon Camille Pissarro Giambattista Pittoni Frans Post Nicolas Poussin Raphael Rembrandt Guido Reni Pierre-Auguste Renoir Diego Rivera Suze Robertson Dante Gabriel Rossetti François Rude Jacob van Ruisdael Charles Marion Russell Rachel Ruysch John Singer Sargent Thérèse Schwartze De Es Schwertberger Georges Seurat Sharaku Alfred Sisley Matthias Stom August Strindberg Titian J. M. W. Turner Suzanne Valadon Diego Velázquez Johannes Vermeer George Vincent John William Waterhouse Michaelina Wautier J. Alden Weir Rogier van der Weyden Eugenio Zampighi Erotic works by Thomas Rowlandson
By type	Gold-glass portraits Haunted paintings National Treasures of Japan May paintings Most expensive On Soviet postage stamps On United States postage stamps Pre-Raphaelite paintings Stolen paintings Stone Age paintings
Related	100 Great Paintings (1980 BBC series) 120 Paintings from the Rijksmuseum Still life paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720