National Gallery of Art highlights overlooked women artists of Dutch Golden Age

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, is presenting a slideshow feature titled "Can You Name Five Women Artists from the Dutch Golden Age?" that challenges the erasure of women artists from seventeenth-century Netherlands. Art historian Elizabeth Honig describes their position as a "grey zone between the one world and the other," operating outside traditional professional areas with little formal training. Despite working in various mediums, marketing their work, and advancing new genres, many women artists were later relegated to amateur status, their works misattributed to male relatives. The feature includes Judith Leyster's 1630 self-portrait and aims to correct historical memory.