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Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance (1664) depicts a private, contemplative moment and is a superb example of the artist’s exquisite sense of order and rhythm.
Woman Holding a Balance (Dutch: Vrouw met weegschaal), also called Woman Testing a Balance, is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
This painting offers one of the most glorious examples of Vermeer’s exquisite sense of balance and rhythm from the early to mid-1660s. The woman, her right hand gently holding the scale, is poised with her small finger extended, which gives a horizontal accent to the gesture.
Woman Holding a Balance. by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1664, oil on canvas, 42.5 x 38 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
The woman in Johannes Vermeer’s painting, Woman Holding a Balance (c. 1664), is standing in front of a table holding a balance between her fingers and looking at it in a contemplative manner. It is believed to symbolize ideas of so-called self-knowledge and wisdom.
Whether conveying the vanity of worldly possessions, or the need for moderation and restraint in life, Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance exemplifies the artist's ability to distill scenes to their essence and create perfectly balanced compositions that seem at once realistic and idealized.
Woman Holding a Balance gives the impression, even more powerfully than Woman Putting On Pearls, of being a distillation, and an open assertion, of the values implicit in Vermeer's work as a whole.
Woman Holding a Balance is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer from about 1664. It depicts a woman standing serenely before a table that bears a jewelry box while she waits for her small handheld balance to come to rest. The work uses symbolism to tell a lofty story through an ordinary scene.
Woman Holding a Balance, also called Woman Testing a Balance, is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer. At one time the painting, completed 1662–1663, was known as Woman Weighing Gold, but closer evaluation has determined that the balance in her hand is empty.
Woman Holding a Balance (c. 1664) by Johannes Vermeer National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. This interior scene occupies a special place in Vermeer’s oeuvre because it contains an explicit...