Woman Holding a Balance, Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer·Woman Holding a Balance·c. 1662–64·Oil on canvas·National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC↓

Johannes Vermeer Dutch, 1632 – 1675

Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1662–64

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A woman in a fur-trimmed blue jacket holds a small balance over a table strewn with pearls and gold, lit by a curtained window. Behind her hangs a painting of the Last Judgment. Once called Woman Weighing Gold, it is now read as a call to temperance, though whether she is pregnant or simply fashionably dressed is still argued.

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Both pans of the balance are empty, and they hang perfectly level.

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