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Girl with a Pearl Earring

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. This is shown here in the softness of the girl’s face and the glimmers of…

Creator

  • Johannes Vermeer

Type of item

  • painting

Date

  • 1665 - 1665
  • 1665/1665
  • 1665/1665

Medium

  • canvas
  • Canvas

Creator

  • Johannes Vermeer

Type of item

  • painting

Date

  • 1665 - 1665
  • 1665/1665
  • 1665/1665

Medium

  • canvas
  • Canvas

Providing institution

  • Mauritshuis

Aggregator

  • Dutch Collections for Europe

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

User generated content

  • false

Identifier

  • resource_document_mauritshuis_670
  • 670

Format

  • 65 cm
  • 39 cm
  • 44.5 cm
  • 74 cm

Providing country

  • Netherlands

Collection name

  • 2021672_Ag_NL_DigitaleCollectie_Mauritshuis

Timestamp created

  • 2017-08-02T11:48:26.069Z

Timestamp updated

  • 2023-02-28T08:45:41.077Z