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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.
Woman with a Pearl Necklace: 1662–64 Oil on canvas, 55 × 45 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin: Woman with a Water Jug, also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher [8] 1660–62 or c. 1662 [8] Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 40.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Woman Holding a Balance, also known as Woman with a Balance [8] 1662–63 or c. 1663 ...
Study of a Young Woman (also known as Portrait of a Young Woman or Girl with a Veil) [2] [3] is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed between 1665 and 1667, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The painting was painted around the same time as the better-known Girl with a Pearl Earring and has a near ...
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting. Inspiration and Rivalry., Louvre Museum (20 February 2017 ... Young woman pouring water out of a jug, by Gerard Dou;
She is not an apparition or abstraction. She is not the ideal, worldly housewife of Vermeer's later Young Woman with a Water Pitcher or the ethereal beauty in Girl with a Pearl Earring. She is not the cartoonish buxom vixen in Leyden's drawing. She is real — as real as a painting can get anyway." [11]
In Vermeer, 1632–1675 (2000), Norbert Schneider wrote that the open window represents "the woman's longing to extend her domestic sphere" beyond the constraints of her home and society, while the fruit "is a symbol of extramarital relations."
Another important aspect of Vermeer's Woman with Pearl Necklace is the placement of the domestic tools on the table. A water basin, comb, and powder brush are all displayed on the table. This painting may suggest criticism towards a young upper-class women's frivolity, lack of occupation, and her ample time for petty activities.
Woman Reading a Letter (Vermeer) Woman with a Lute; Woman with a Pearl Necklace; Woman with a Water Jug; Y. A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals