Young Woman with a Water PitcherJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) · ca. 1662The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0) · the museum’s record
A masterwork Dutch Golden Age
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer, 1632–1675, painted ca. 1662
Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and released as Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0). It is here to paint after: give us your own line and the painters take its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.
A print of the painting itself, up to 20 × 30 inches. Nothing larger, because it would arrive soft.
- Painting after it
- The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, stays the subject.
- The credit
- Every painting made after it carries “after Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art” on its plaque, and on the share page.
- The licence
- Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it. The credit travels with it everywhere we show it, and it is never enlarged.



