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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Oil on canvas · 44.5 × 39 cm

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Where to see it

Mauritshuis, The Hague

About the painting

Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it acquired its present title towards the end of the 20th century. 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.

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Image: Johannes Vermeer; Wikimedia Commons · public domain

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