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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
Medium
- canvas
- Canvas
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Identifier
- 670
- resource_document_mauritshuis_670
Format
- 65 cm
- 39 cm
- 44.5 cm
- 74 cm
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-08-02T11:48:26.069Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-09-27T12:48:38.707Z