Girl with the Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer van Delft (1632- 1675) the painter of meditative portraits and of poetical domestic scenes was a master of rendering the almost material quality of light falling on rich textures, on the delicate traces of a face or on a pearl. Girl with the Pearl Earring won in the past years a well deserved fame through Tracy Chevalier’s novel and through the homonymous film; a consuming story of unconventional love and renunciation in an exquisite patrician environment.

The portrait can be admired in Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague