Study of a Young Woman
Artist: Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675)
Original Dimensions: 17 1/2" x 15 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1665–67) "Soft light illuminates the face of a young woman dressed in clothing and costume jewelry that would have struck seventeenth-century Dutch viewers as exotic. Like Vermeer’s famous Girl with a Pearl Earring (ca. 1665; Mauritshuis, The Hague), this painting was most likely not a commissioned portrait, but rather a so-called tronie, a portrayal of an intriguing individual, often in fanciful costume." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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