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Woman with a Water Jug (Dutch: Vrouw met waterkan), 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 × 40.6 cm, and is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Anna Seiler is represented by a woman in a blue dress, pouring water into a small dish. She stands on a pillar brought from the Roman town of Aventicum (modern Avenches ). On 29 November 1354 in her will [ 2 ] she asked the city to help found a hospital in her house which today stands on Zeughausgasse .
Chemical analysis, conducted in 1910 by Dr. Gutovkin, revealed that the water from the fountain was of inferior quality compared to the tap water in Tsarskoye Selo, which came from the Orlovsky and Taitsky springs. It contained more bacteria and was harder. [26] [27] Milkmaid (Girl with a pitcher), 1816. Catherine Park in Tsarskoye Selo (summer)
The painting shows a milkmaid, a woman who milks cows and makes dairy products like butter and cheese, in a plain room carefully pouring milk into a squat earthenware container on a table. Milkmaids began working solely in the stables before large houses hired them to do housework as well rather than hiring out for more staff.
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .
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The painting portrays three young people on a lawn, playing music together. Next to them, a standing woman is pouring water from a marble basin. The women are naked apart from their drapery, fallen to their legs; the two men are dressed in contemporary 16th century Venetian costume. In a vast, pastoral background, there is a shepherd and a ...
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