#girl with a pearl earring

[wizard-legs]

Hi!! If you liked my Klimt Kermiggy sticker you might like my Gonzo with a Pearl Earring sticker! Now on my ko-fi ✨

Hey. If you liked my gouache tribute to The Kiss feat. Miss Piggy and Kermit you might like these stickers now up on my ☕️

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Marcille with a Pearl Earring

referencing (rereading?) Meisje met de parel by Johannes Vermeer (1665)

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Girl with Pearl Earring, at the museum - Johannes Vermeer

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"Man with a Mystra earring"

[midnight-greens]

ike with a pearl earring that I got for my birthday from my friend…

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pearl with a pearl earring - a redraw

[blondebrainpowered]

Black Girl With a Pearl, 2018

Photographer: Jenny Boot

Model: Norah Namuddu

@Jennyboot_photography, a take on Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring.

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kittified 4: kitty with a yarn earring 🐱🐾 (small version) she's just being fashionable, and pearls are so 1600s! also, it's probably practical to always carry your toys with you 😸 sketch and linework are under the cut! reblogs are greatly appreciated!🖤

[diana-andraste]

Untitled (Hotel Box with Vermeer Detail), Joseph Cornell, c. 1955

Painted wood and glass box construction with printed paper collage

[beckysquiltingagain]

I might like the back better than the front… can’t stop staring at it. But it took me an entire work week to finish, so I’m just going to keep looking at it

[artfilmfan]

Pearl With a Pearl Earring by The Inspired Cynic

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The Girl With The Pearl Necklace by Julija Stojanovic

[august-diehl]

CILLIAN MURPHY as Pieter in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) | dir. Peter Webber

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Artist: Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-1675)

Date: 1665

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Description

A young woman looks over her shoulder at us. She holds her head slightly to one side, there is a gleam in her greyish-blue eyes, and her lips are slightly parted and moist. On her head is a turban that she has wound from two pieces of material, one blue and one yellow, and she is adorned with a pearl earring. It is from this oversized jewel in the middle of the composition that the painting derives its title.

The painting provides a rich sample of every aspect of Vermeer’s virtuoso painting technique. The face is modelled very softly, not in great detail but with gradual transitions and invisible brushstrokes. The clothing is depicted more schematically and enlivened with small dots of paint suggesting reflected light – one of Vermeer’s trademark features. Even so, the artist has clearly indicated differences between materials – for instance between the white collar, painted in impasto, and the drier paint of the turban, for which he used the precious pigment ultramarine. But the most remarkable detail is the pearl. This consists of little more than two brushstrokes: a bright highlight at upper left and the soft reflection of the white collar on the underside.

Seventeenth-century Dutch girls did not wear turbans. With this accessory Vermeer has given the girl an Oriental air. Images like this were known in the seventeenth century as tronies. Tronies are not portraits: they were not made in order to produce the best possible likeness of an individual. Although there would probably be a sitter, the point of a tronie was mainly to make a study of a head representing a particular character or type. Rembrandt had popularised tronies in Dutch art around 1630. He made dozens of them, often using himself as the model, sometimes wearing a remarkable cap or a helmet.

The pearl is too large to be real. Perhaps the girl is wearing a pearl drop made of glass, which has been varnished to give it a matte sheen. Another possibility, of course, is that the pearl was a product of Vermeer’s imagination. Pearls – both real and imitation – were fashionable in the period from about 1650 to 1680. We often find them in paintings by Frans van Mieris, Gabriel Metsu and Gerard ter Borch.

Girl with a Pearl Earring has been known to the general public only since 1881, when it was put up for auction at the Venduhuis der Notarissen in The Hague. On the viewing day it attracted the attention of the influential cultural official Victor de Stuers, who was there together with his friend and neighbour, the art collector A.A. des Tombe.

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Timelapse of my recent Gale piece!

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