Vermeer's 'girl With A Pearl Earring'

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Vermeer's 'girl With A Pearl Earring'

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Painting of the Dutch Golden Age entitled ?ǣGirl with a Pearl Earring?ǥ (Meisje met de parel). Oil on canvas c.1665 by the Dutch artist of the Delft School Johannes Vermeer (Jan Vermeer van Delft, 1632-1675). The Dutch 17th-century description of this painting is a ?ǣtronie?ǥ, a portrait not meant to be a specific person but someone more generalised, mysterious, dressed in exotic clothing, in this case an imaginary European girl wearing an oriental-style turban and a large pearl earring. The painting is in the collection of the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague and is considered by many to be Vermeer's finest masterpiece.

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October 9th, 2019

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