- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer
- Year
- ca. 1670–72
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 114.3 x 88.9 cm
Vermeer’s most ambitious allegorical painting depicts Faith as a woman in white and blue, her right hand pressed to her chest, her left foot resting on a globe. A crucifix, a chalice, and a serpent beneath her foot complete the Catholic iconography, while a painting of the Passion hangs on the back wall.
The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 32.100.18), The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931.