The Young Virgin
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About this painting
A child sews, and the room around her is a still life. The Met credits the picture's force to Zurbarán's other trade — his calculated use of the empty spaces between simple objects, as much as the objects themselves. The pottery and the textiles are not biblical props but real things from the Seville of his own day, set there to link the divine and the everyday. The legend that Mary lived in the Temple as a girl, praying and sewing vestments, is in no gospel, and the Met says so.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 'The Young Virgin', accession 27.137; read 2026-08-27.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,587 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.