Metropolitan Museum of Arts: Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, Delft 1632 -- 1675 Delft) Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (1662) History of the Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) notes that this was the first Vermeer painting to enter an America Continue Reading...
She is wearing a white cap to cover her hair, which further conveys a sense of anonymousness. However, after researching this work of art, I began to discover how wide the divide was between my own assumptions of beauty and that of Vermeer's time. Continue Reading...
The nineteenth century title of the work applies primarily to the girl at the right of the filed who is bent over the writing woman's shoulder, peering at the letter as it takes shape. Whatever the full intentions of this woman are, she is certainly Continue Reading...
