Woman with a Water Jug

Woman with a Water Jug
Artist	Johannes Vermeer
Year	1660–1662
Type	Oil on canvas
Location	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.

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher was purchased by Henry Gurdon Marquand in 1887 at a Paris gallery for $800. When Marquand brought it to the United States it was the first Vermeer in America. Marquand donated the artwork along with other pieces in his collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

See also

• List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer
• Dutch Golden Age painting

External links

• Essential Vermeer: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
• smARThistory: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
• Young Woman with a Water Pitcher - Analysis and Critical Reception
• "Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Jug and What Men and Women Are Hoping for in Marriage by Julie and Robert Jensen
• Essay on this painting from the book Beauty and Terror by Brian A. Oard
• The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Woman with a Water Jug (cat. no. 7)