Girl with Earring Pearl (Dutch: Meisje meets de parel ) is an oil painting by the Dutch painter Golden Age Johannes Vermeer. This is a tronie of a girl wearing hijab and pearl earrings. The painting has been in the Mauritshuis collection in The Hague since 1902. In 2006, the Dutch public chose it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands.
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Description
The painting is a tronie, a Dutch 17th century description of a 'head' which is not intended as a portrait. It depicts a European girl dressed in exotic clothes, an oriental turban, and an impossibly large pearl earrings. In 2014, Dutch astrophysicist Vincent Icke raised doubts about the material of the earring and argued that it was more like a polished tin than a pearl on the basis of spekular reflection, pear shape, and large size of earrings.
His work is oil on canvas and 44.5 cm (17.5 inches) tall and 39 cm wide (15 inches) wide. It was signed "IVMeer" but not dated. It is estimated to have been painted around 1665.
After the latest painting restoration in 1994, the subtle color scheme and intimacy of the girl's gaze towards the audience has been greatly enhanced. During the restoration, it was found that the dark background, today somewhat mottled, was originally intended by painters to be green like deep enamel. This effect is generated by applying a thin, transparent coat of paint, called a glaze, over today's black background. However, the two organic pigments of green glazes, indigo and welds, have faded.
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Ownership and display
At the suggestion of Victor de Stuers, who for many years tried to prevent Vermeer's rare work from being sold to foreigners, Arnoldus Andries des Tombe purchased the work at an auction in The Hague in 1881, with only two guilders at a thirty-pence premium about EUR24 with current purchasing power). It was bad then. Des Tombe had no heirs and donated these and other paintings to Mauritshuis in 1902.
In 2012, as part of a temporary exhibition of Mauritshuis while being renovated and expanded, the painting was exhibited in Japan at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, and in 2013-2014 in the United States, where it was featured at the High Museum in Atlanta, de Young Museum in San Francisco and in New York City at Frick Collection. Then in 2014 it was exhibited in Bologna, Italy. In June 2014, he returned to the Mauritshuis museum stating that the painting would not leave the museum in the future.
Painting techniques
The painting was investigated by scientists from the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) Amsterdam.
The ground is dense and yellowish and consists of chalk, white tin, ocher and very little black. The dark background of the painting contains black bones, welds (luteolin, luteola reseda), lime, a small amount of red ocher, and indigo. Faces and drapes painted mainly using ochres, natural ultramarine, black bone, black charcoal and white tin.
In February-March 2018, an international team of art experts spent two weeks studying the painting in a specially-built glass workshop in a museum open to public observation. Non-invasive research projects include removing work from the frame to study by microscope, X-ray equipment and special scanners to learn more about the methods and materials used by Vermeer.
Cultural impact
Tracy Chevalier wrote a history novel, also titled Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), interpreting the situation of the painting's creation. In the novel, Johannes Vermeer becomes close to a fictitious waiter named Griet (based on Chevalier's close friend Georgia Kendall), whom he hired as an assistant and has accompanied him as a model of painting while wearing his wife's pearl earrings. This novel inspired a 2003 movie and a 2008 drama of the same title. 2003 movie star Scarlett Johansson as Griet, girl with pearl earrings and Colin Firth as Vermeer. Johansson was nominated for numerous awards including the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in the Main Role.
The painting also appeared in the 2007 film St Trinian's, when a group of non-compliant school girls stole her to raise funds to save their school.
British street artist Banksy has re-created the painting as a mural in Bristol, replacing the pearl earrings with an alarm box and calling the artwork Girl with Piered Eardrum.
References
See also
- Miniaturis, another historical novel placed in Amsterdam 17th
Further reading
- Liedtke, Walter A (2001). Vermeer and Delft School . Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN: 9780870999734. OCLCĂƒ, 893698712.
External links
- In-depth view of Girl with Earring Pearl
- Investigation of illumination Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Vermeer, Girl with Earring Pearl , ColourLex
- February 2018 NYT Articles
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