Judith Leyster: Painting Analysis

The self-portrait painting is a baroque painting by Judith Leyster during the baroque period. In Bernini and Caravaggio paintings we saw high energy and dramatic art. Judith Leyster is a northern dutch baroque painter. Instead of the subject being religious she simply made the painting about the artist, herself. In the painting, she is turned to us in an awkward position as if she is trying to talk to us for a spontaneous moment. We can tell by her uncomfortable positioned elbow and by her brush that she is only turned to us for a second. Another baroque thing about this self-portrait is the space between her and us, she is in a way breaking out of her space into ours. It is likely that she did not paint in what she was wearing in her self-portrait,