It has been three centuries since the death of the versatile Dutch genre, portrait, and still-life painter Judith Leyster (1609-1660), but it was only during the last women’s movement that the pioneer study of her works was finally made. In 1927, Juliane Harms discussed Leyster’s life, arranged her works in chronological order, and provided the first (and as yet only) published catalogue raisonné
... [Show full abstract] of her paintings. 1 Within six years after the appearance of these articles in Oud-Holland, other art historians added information to, or disputed points in, Harms’s thesis. But from the mid-1930s until the present, there has been very little written about this artist. © 1982 by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard. All rights reserved.