Judith Leyster

(Haarlem 1609 – 1660 Heemstede)

Still life with a basket of fruit

Canvas, 68 x 62.5 cm

Monogrammed at right on the wall: JL * (JL in ligature)

This is the only extant still life by the Haarlem painter Judith Leyster and as such it stands out within her small oeuvre. A superb seventeenth-century artist, Leyster is one of the few women painters from her time whose fame has endured to the present day.