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
The Woman with the Spider's Web outcome and when asked by his brother to produce further works for transfer, he declined, writing, "ask another artist". Original cuts of "Woman with the Spider's Web" are in the British Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, amongst other locations. The image shows a female figure sitting by a dead tree as she solemnly looks into the distance, away from the viewer. Her elbow rests on a broken tree branch, while, according to art historian Albert Boime, "all around her weeds have sprung up (including the sickening thistles, traditional symbols of melancholy)". Many of the overgrown