![]() ![]() In February-March 2018 an international team of art experts spent two weeks studying the painting in a specially constructed glass workshop in the museum, open to observation by the public. The face and draperies were painted mainly using ochres, natural ultramarine, bone black, charcoal black and lead white. The dark background of the painting contains bone black, weld (luteolin, Reseda luteola), chalk, small amounts of red ochre, and indigo. The ground is dense and yellowish in colour and is composed of chalk, lead white, ochre and very little black. ![]() ![]() The painting was investigated by the scientists of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) Amsterdam. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. Īs a result of its promotion, Girl with a Pearl Earring has become one of the world's most recognizable paintings and has been compared to the Mona Lisa. Nevertheless, the painting is currently on show until 30th March 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as part of their 2023 Vermeer exhibition. In June 2014, it returned to the Mauritshuis museum which stated that the painting would not leave the museum in the future. Later in 2014 it was exhibited in Bologna, Italy. In 2012, as part of a travelling exhibition while the Mauritshuis was 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 shown at the High Museum in Atlanta, the de Young Museum in San Francisco and in New York City at the Frick Collection. The painting was exhibited as part of a Vermeer show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 19, and in another Vermeer exhibition in 1995-96. Des Tombe had no heirs and by a bequest donated this and other paintings to the Mauritshuis in 1902. At the time, it was in poor condition, with parts of the paint layer having become detached. On the advice of Victor de Stuers, who for years tried to prevent Vermeer's rare works from being sold to parties abroad, Arnoldus Andries des Tombe purchased the work at an auction in The Hague in 1881, for only two guilders plus thirty cents buyer's premium (around €24 at current purchasing power ). The Mauritshuis in The Hague, 2011, showing the painting in a hanging at right However, the two organic pigments of the green glaze, indigo and weld, have faded. This effect was produced by applying a thin transparent layer of paint-a glaze-over the black background seen now. During the restoration, it was discovered that the dark background, today somewhat mottled, was originally a deep enamel-like green. Īfter the most recent restoration of the painting in 1994, the subtle colour scheme and the intimacy of the girl's gaze toward the viewer have been greatly enhanced. It is estimated to have been painted around 1665. The work is oil on canvas and is 44.5 cm (17.5 in) high and 39 cm (15 in) wide. ![]() In 2014, Dutch astrophysicist Vincent Icke raised doubts about the material of the earring and argued that it looks more like polished tin than pearl on the grounds of the specular reflection, the pear shape and the large size of the earring. It depicts a European girl wearing "exotic dress", an "oriental turban", and what appears to be a very large pearl as an earring. The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a "head" that was not meant to be a portrait. The work has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902 and has been the subject of various literary and cinematic treatments. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title towards the end of the 20th century after the earring worn by the girl portrayed there. Girl With A Pearl Earring ( Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. For other uses, see Girl with a Pearl Earring (disambiguation). ![]()
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