woman with a water jug johannes vermeerAs part of the Dutch Baroque movement, Johannes Vermeer's painting Woman with a Water Jug depicts an everyday scene with infinite grace. The viewer is plunged into the intimacy of a woman at her morning toilet, a genre scene that reveals the richness of the most banal moments. The painting shows a young woman standing by an open window, holding a ewer and a pearl. The blue of her dress, the white of her headdress and the gold of the ewer shine in the