Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 1662. Vermeer's early paintings focused on workers or servants, such as Mary Magdalene or the milkmaid. But around 1662, he began to concentrate on courtship ...

Red Grooms gave artist Joe Fig a bit of insight he’s been turning over ever since. The toughest part of artmaking, the pop artist told him, “is that moment where it appears like you are doing the ...

When it comes to artist Johannes Vermeer's work, writer Steven Winn definitely has an eye for the ladies - which made him the perfect choice to write this week's cover story on the M.H. de Young ...

She also highlights several of Vermeer's best known images, including the intense Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, and the elegant Young Woman with a Water Pitcher.

sets an example for recession-era museum practice. The single guest diva, from the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, heads a cast of local talent: the Met’s five Vermeers (including the later, peerless ...

Vermeer’s paintings are scattered between ten cities in Europe (London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, ... Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (1662-64), Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This costly choice lends a celestial touch to the mundane, an effect that Vermeer also employed when rendering the lead panes on the window of “Young Woman with a Water Pitcher,” which is ...

At one point we know he settled a debt with the baker by giving him a large painting (which Binstock believes was the Met’s Young Woman With a Water Pitcher), but another debt was coming due ...