Instead, caught in a fleeting moment, she turns her head over her shoulder, meeting the viewer’s gaze with her eyes wide and lips parted as if about to speak.
Unlike many of Vermeer’s subjects, she is not concentrating on a daily chore and unaware of her viewer. She wears a blue and gold turban, the titular pearl earring, and a gold jacket with a visible white collar beneath. Girl with a Pearl Earring represents a young woman in a dark shallow space, an intimate setting that draws the viewer’s attention exclusively on her. Historians believe Vermeer painted the small piece (17.52 × 15.35 inches ) around 1665, during the period in which he executed a group of paintings with a shared pearl motif. While Girl with a Pearl Earring bears “IVMeer,” it is undated. Notable examples included Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (c. Like his peers, he mostly depicted scenes of ordinary life, later called “genre” painting, often of women at daily tasks. Ian Dagnall/AlamyĪn observant and deliberate painter, Vermeer produced only 36 known works in his lifetime, while many of his contemporaries completed hundreds. Girl with a Pearl Earring, oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer, c. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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