Every Day a Painting for October 24, 2026

Woman Holding a Balance (1664)

Johannes Vermeer

Oil on Canvas. Dutch, Baroque.

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

Woman Holding a Balance is a superb example of Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite sense of stability and rhythm. A woman dressed in a blue jacket with fur trim stands serenely at a table in a corner of a ro…

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