Johannes Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring



Johannes Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earring



Johannes Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring
c. 1665-67
44.5 x 39 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed upper left: IVMeer (IVM in monogram)
Mauritshuis, The Hague


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 44 info
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 22

Literature
Madlyn Millner Kahr, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, New York, NY, 1993, fig. 215
Walter Liedtke with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger, Vermeer and the Delft School, New Haven and London, 2001, fig. 285
Edwin Buijsen, The Young Vermeer, The Hague; Zwolle, 2010, fig. 40
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Vermeer's Women, New Haven [Conn.], 2011, fig. 23
Marc Restellini (ed.), Ilone et George Kremer, Paris, 2011, p. 214, fig. 1
Dagmar Hirschfelder, León Krempel (eds.), Tronies, Berlin, 2014, table 12
Frits Duparc, Uit de doeken, Amsterdam, 2015, pp. 19-28
Margaret Iacono, James Ivory, Vermeer's Mistress and maid, New York; London, 2018, fig. 18
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 13
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 1
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 204-205


Exhibitions

1995 Johannes Vermeer, Nr. 15

Provenance

possibly Pieter Claesz van Ruijven, Delft
possibly his widow, Maria de Knuijt, Delft, 1674
possibly their daughter, Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft, 1681
possibly her widower, Jacob Abrahamsz Dissius, 1682
sale, Amsterdam, 16 May 1696
Braams sale, The Hague, 1881
Arnoldus Andries des Tombe, The Hague, 1881
Koninklijk Kabinet van Schuilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1903, bequest of Arnoldus des Tombe

External links

RKD 24956
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 670

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Johannes Vermeer The Astronomer
The Astronomer
1668

Johannes Vermeer Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
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Johannes Vermeer The Concert
The Concert
c. 1663-66

Johannes Vermeer Cavalier and Young Woman
Cavalier and Young Woman
c. 1657

Johannes Vermeer The Lacemaker
The Lacemaker
c. 1669-70