It is a tronie of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. For this reason, she has captured the imagination of viewers throughout generations. The painting has a timeless quality, the girl bears no symbolic attributes, and she is not placed in any specific context. In the interior settings, the women are portrayed in contemplative and quiet moments, while The Girl with a Pearl Earring has a sense of immediacy and drama. The model is set against a dark background, which is very different than the detailed settings of Vermeer’s interior paintings, such as the mentioned Woman Holding a Balance and Young Woman with a Water Pitcher. In a 1994 restoration, it was discovered that Vermeer accentuated girl’s mouth with small dots of pink paint, and placed light accents in her eyes to brighten her face. However, in The Girl with a Pearl Earring, the application of paint is bolder and more expressive. In both cases, Vermeer used this technique of layering paint when creating the shaded portions of the headdress on the models. Vermeer employed this technique in other paintings, like Woman Holding a Balance (1665) and Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (ca.
Some have suggested that Vermeer was able to capture these details and effects through the use of camera obscura, an optical device that was able to project an image onto a flat surface. This was accomplished by layering a thin flesh-colored glaze over a transparent under-modelling (the initial layers of color placed on the surface). Vermeer used his inventive method of layering paint that created the sensuality of the soft skin. While The Girl with a Pearl Earring is an idealized beauty, the Study of A Young Woman shows plain and imperfect facial features.Įven though The Girl with a Pearl Earring is consistent with Vermeer’s style and technique, it is distinct in a few noteworthy ways. In both paintings, the figures are set against a black background, wearing the pearl earring and having a scarf draped over the shoulder. 1665-1667) is often seen as a variant or counterpart of The Girl with a Pearl Earring. Another tronie by Vermeer, Study of A Young Woman (ca. These exotic elements increase the drama of the painting, and give the artist the opportunity to display artistic effects in his treatment of light and texture. The girl wears a head wrap inspired by a Turkish turban and an enormous pearl earring.
Vermeer captures a fleeting moment, the girl turning her head, her lips slightly parted while she directly faces the viewer. Tronies are studies of facial characteristics, stereotypical characters or exaggerated expressions. The painting is considered a tronie, a subcategory of portraiture that was popular in the Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque art. Some have suggested that it is Vermeer’s eldest daughter, Maria, however there is no compelling evidence to confirm this assertion. The identity of the model in The Girl with a Pearl Earring remains unknown. 1504) makes sense: both paintings share an air of mystery, from the model’s enigmatic gaze to the speculations surrounding the identities of the women in the paintings. The comparison to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (ca. The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Jan Vermeer’s most famous painting, is often called the ‘Dutch Mona Lisa’.
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