Woman with a Water Jug

The painting shows a woman in a blue dress with a white head covering standing by an open window on the left, reaching toward the frame. In front of her, a table draped with a red patterned cloth holds a water jug on a plate and a few small objects, with a map on the wall behind and a blue cloth to the right. The scene is lit by soft, cool light from the left, creating gentle shadows and a restrained palette of blues, whites, and warm earth tones, executed with Vermeer’s precise, luminous realism and balanced interior composition.