Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 89.15.21
- Credit
- Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1675. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A young woman in a white linen hood and a blue skirt stands by a leaded window, one hand opening the casement and the other resting on a silver pitcher in a basin on a table covered with a red patterned rug. A map hangs on the pale wall behind her.
- Image
- 1421 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009027
coldlibrary.com/g/009027 - Credit line
- Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, c. 1662. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009027
Vermeer painted very few pictures, and many of them are this: a single person in a room in Delft, lit from a window on the left. The white hood holds blue and grey reflections from the glass and the wall. She is caught between two small acts, and the painting lets the moment stay open.
