''Standing Cavalier'' is a painting by
Judith Leyster
Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster; baptised July 28, 1609Molenaer, JudithNational Gallery of Art website. Accessed February 1, 2014. – February 10, 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her work wa ...
in the
Royal Collection
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.
[Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age, by Frima Fox Hofrichter, Doornspijk, 1989, Davaco Publishers, , catalog #14] It is the only painting by Leyster with a provenance that dates back to the 18th-century.
Provenance
The painting was acquired by
George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and ...
for his collection as a work by
in 1762 from Consul Smith. It was first attributed to
Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, ; ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate thei ...
by
Wilhelm von Bode
Wilhelm von Bode (10 December 1845 – 1 March 1929) was a German art historian and museum curator. Born Arnold Wilhelm Bode in Calvörde, and known as Wilhelm Bode for most of his career, he was ennobled in 1913, and thereafter adopted the ar ...
in 1883 and was listed in Hals catalogs until
W.R. Valentiner and
Numa S. Trivas rejected the Hals attribution, calling it "a study". It was overlooked by Harms in 1927, but
Seymour Slive
Seymour Slive (September 15, 1920 – June 14, 2014) was an American art historian, who served as director of the Harvard Art Museums from 1975 to 1984. Slive was a scholar of Dutch art, specifically of the artists Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and J ...
identified it as a work by Leyster, listing it alongside a California copy and an Amsterdam drawing as studies for the Hals portrait ''
Willem van Heythuysen posing with a sword''.
[ ''Frans Hals'', Volume 3 (a catalog raisonné), National gallery of Art: Kress Foundation, Studies in the History of European Art, London – Phaidon Press, 1974, catalog #31A] The painting is unsigned but is dated five years after the Hals portrait, based on the biographical details of Leyster and the visual evidence that the two paintings are clearly related.
According to Hofrichter, the drapery is echoed in Leyster's ''Carousing Couple''.
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File:Frans Hals - Willem van Heythuyzen - WGA11076.jpg
File:Judith Leyster - Study of a standing man after the portrait of Willem van Heythuizen by Frans Hals.jpg
]
See also
*List of paintings by Judith Leyster
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.
Sources
*''c:Judith Leyster catalog raisonné, 1989, Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holl ...
* List of paintings by Frans Hals
References
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1633 paintings
Paintings by Judith Leyster
Paintings in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom