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In this vertical painting, a woman stands near the corner of a dimly lit room, facing our left in profile and looking down at a balance she holds suspended in her right hand over a wooden table. She wears a peacock-blue velvet jacket with a white hood and fur lining, and a voluminous, mustard-yellow skirt. A window near the upper left corner is partially covered by a canary-yellow curtain. Light coming in through that window falls on the pale skin of the woman's face and hands, and highlights the white trim of her garment. Her left hand, closer to us, rests on the edge of the table near two…

Woman Holding a Balance

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)

c. 1664 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Widener Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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