“I had to do that scene where I had to cry in the water, and it was freezing cold. Andy Muschietti was on a God mic and he was going, ‘Now Bill, I need you to cry, and then I need you to splash each other, and then I need you to go back to childhood. And then Bill, I need you to realize you cannot go back to childhood. And then I need you to cry like you’ve never cried.’”
Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, c. 1630, oil on canvas, 74.6 × 65.1 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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“Dutch artist Judith Leyster was just 20 years old when she painted this virtuosic self-portrait in 1630. … Today, her self-portrait is one of the National Gallery’s most popular paintings. In it, we see her expressive brushwork and her talent for capturing a lively manner. There’s no better introduction to Leyster than her own self representation.”
“[Leyster] achieved great success—as an artist in her own right and especially as a woman working in a mostly male industry. In the Dutch Republic, … Leyster was one of the only two women accepted as a master to the prestigious Haarlem painters’ guild in the entire 17th century. By 1635, she had taken on three pupils, a sign that she was a renowned artist.”
“For more than 200 years, Leyster remained largely forgotten. Her better-known contemporary Frans Hals came back into vogue in the 19th and 20th centuries. Knowingly or not, dishonest dealers made a fortune passing off Leyster’s works as Hals’s. It was only in 1897 that Merry Company was authenticated as Leyster’s work—and a rediscovery of her other works ensued. Today, about 35 works are attributed to her.”
Source: Annie Yi, “Art up Close: Judith Leyster, the Leading Star of Her Time,” National Gallery of Art, March 14, 2025.
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