Background information
Generally, super little is known astir Vermeer & his works. This painting is signed "IVMeer", but not dated. These are undecipherable whether or even does'nt this function was accredited, & in case and then by whom. In any example, these are probably non intended as a conventional portrait. Instead, Vermeer could use tried to capture a moment where this girl, whose identity is unknown, turns her head towards soul whom she has upright found.

On the advice of Victor de Stuers, world health organization for years tried to cease Vermeer's uncommon works from either existence sold to parties overseas, The.The. des Tombe purchased a work on an auction around The Hague in 1881 for simply both guilders & thirty cents. At a instance, its trouble was super bad. Des Tombe experienced there are no heirs & donated this & more paintings to the Mauritshuis within 1902.

Inside 1937, a super similar painting, at the instance besides thought to become by Vermeer, was donated by collector Andrew W. Mellon to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. These are at present widely considered to become the fake. Vermeer skilful Arthur Wheelock claimed inside the 1995 learn that these are by 20th century creative person & ill-famed forger Theo van Wijngaarden, a friend of the potentially supplementary infamous Han van Meegeren.

Novel

Vermeer's painting inspired the novel Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, which imagines a circumstances under which the painting come to exist as created.

Film

A 2003 United Kingdom/Luxembourg drama film Girl with the Pearl Earring was directed by Peter Webber. A screenplay was adapted from a novel by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed. A film stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson and Cillian Murphy.

Griet (Johansson) occurs as peasant woman who is forced to function as a maid in the home of the painter Vermeer (Firth). She in time becomes a model for what becomes one of his most famous works.

Awards won

2003 - Camerimage Bronze Frog - Eduardo Serra 2003 - Dinard British Film Festival Audience Award - Peter Webber 2003 - Dinard British Film Festival Golden Hitchcock - Peter Webber 2004 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award - Best Cinematography - Eduardo Serra 2003 - San Diego Film Critics Society Award - Best Cinematography - Eduardo Serra 2003 - San Sebastián International Film Festival - Best Cinematography - Eduardo Serra 2003 - C.I.C.A.E. Award - Peter Webber