Woman with a Water Jug 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. Woman with a Water Jug 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
A Youth with a Jug the boy is similar to that of another painting attributed to Leyster in the Bristol Art Gallery. The painter Frans Hals also made a youthful kannekijker in his "Two laughing boys with mug of beer": A Youth with a Jug A Youth with a Jug is an oil painting currently in a private collection. This painting was first documented as being in the collection of Arthur Kay who published his "Treasure Trove of Art" in 1939, including this "Youth with a Jug" as one of a series on the five senses painted by Judith Leyster. Later the five paintings were