Woman with a Water Jug

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Woman with a Water Jug

Johannes Vermeer, 1660-1662

Oil on canvas

45.7 × 40.6 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Woman with a Water Jug, also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660-1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the Baroque style. It is oil on canvas, 45,7cm x 40,6 cm, and is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This painting is one of a closely related group painted in the early to mid 1660s where the artist appears to be moving away from an emphasis on linear perspective and geometric order. He seems to be moving to a simpler form using only one figure and emphasizing the use of light.

[edit] External links

• Essential Vermeer: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
• smARThistory: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
• "Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Jug and What Men and Women Are Hoping for in Marriage by Julie and Robert Jensen