- Woman Holding a Balance, also called Woman Testing a Balance, is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer.
- Detail of ‘Woman Holding a Balance’ (c. 1664) by Johannes Vermeer. ... Its meaning is as finely balanced as the weighing scales in the woman’s hand.
- Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance.
- Woman Holding a Balance (detail), Johannes Vermeer. For a long time, each district of the United Provinces had its own system of weights and measures.
- Woman Holding a Balance captures that brief moment when a familiar action is lifted to the eternal. ... Johannes Vermeer van Delft 1632-1675.
- Like all Vermeers, it shows a scene of everyday life, but Vermeer imbues these scenes with greater meaning.
- _Woman Holding a Balance_ is a superb example of Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite sense of stability and rhythm.
- If you trace diagonals over the painting, you’ll find that the fingers of the woman holding the balance are placed in the exact centre of the work.
- Woman Holding a Balance is a pretty typical Vermeer portrait made for the middle-class merchants who were his patrons at the time.
- From National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance (1664), Oil on canvas, 39.7 × 35.5 cm.
- Vermeer’s exceptional use of composition and light in “Woman Holding a Balance” is one of the primary reasons for its enduring fame.
- Other Paintings by Johannes Vermeer. ... Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter.
- Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance is a naturalistic composition, in other words, it depicts mostly organic shapes and forms that occur in real life...
- Johannes Vermeer’s oil painting Woman Testing a Balance, also known as Woman Holding a Balance, dates from the Dutch Golden Age.
