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Girl with a Pearl Earring
1665
Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 39 cm
Signed: IVMeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring is 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., 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.
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Signed: IVMeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring is 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., 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.
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- License:
- Courtesy of Mauritshuis
- For more:
- http://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/the-collection/artwork…
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Created by
Johannes Vermeer
Artist (Netherlands)
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Part of
Mauritshuis
Museum (Netherlands)
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Uploaded by
Carmelita
Conservator (1,228)
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