![]() When we asked the museum’s director Martine Gosselink about the earring, she responded: “It is neither a pearl nor glass, simply paint.” Vermeer created it with just two quickly applied brushstrokes. Struck by the colors, as well as the expression on said girl’s face, Chevalier stood in front of the painting for hours and bought a poster of it on her Continue reading. It was bequeathed to the Mauritshuis in 1903. Tracy Chevalier, the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), first saw the Johannes Vermeer painting that inspired her novel when she was 19-years-old. ![]() The painting first re-emerged in 1881, as by an anonymous artist, selling for two guilders (less than £1). Although the Rijksmuseum’s current retrospective runs until 4 June, The Girl with the Pearl Earring is so important to the Mauritshuis that it will be returning early, going back on display in The Hague at the beginning of April. It is now undoubtedly the popular star of the Mauritshuis collection. Tracy Chevalier’s book The Girl with the Pearl Earring (1999) and the subsequent film (2003) made the picture even more famous. Until then it was often called the “Girl with the Turban”. ![]() ![]() ![]() The picture only received its present title relatively recently, after a decision by the Mauritshuis curator Quentin Buvelot for the last Vermeer retrospective, held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Mauritshuis in The Hague in 1995-96. ![]()
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