Girl with a Pearl Earring c. 1665
Girl with a Pearl Earring is Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting. It is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure. Tronies depict a certain type or character; in this case a girl in exotic dress, wearing an oriental turban and an improbably large pearl in her ear. Johannes Vermeer was the master of light. This is shown here in the softness of the girl’s face and the glimmers of light on her moist lips. And of course, the shining pearl. The work has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902 and has been the subject of various literary, in 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands.
Girl with a Pearl Earring c. 1665
Girl with a Pearl Earring is Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting. It is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure. Tronies depict a certain type or character; in this case a girl in exotic dress, wearing an oriental turban and an improbably large pearl in her ear. Johannes Vermeer was the master of light. This is shown here in the softness of the girl’s face and the glimmers of light on her moist lips. And of course, the shining pearl. The work has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902 and has been the subject of various literary, in 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands.