Girl with the Pearl Earring Poster

Girl with the Pearl Earring. It is an oil on canvas painted in c. 1665 by baroque Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Although today the painting is universally recognized by the title "Girl with the Pearl Earring", it originally went by different names for more than three hundred years because the artist did not give it a title. The identity of the model, also, remains a mystery to this day, although there are theories that it is the artist's eldest daughter, Maria. There is, however, no historical evidence to support this. Not quite a portrait, the painting is a "tronie", an exaggerated study in expression. In this Vermeer piece the exaggeration is the giantic pearl earring. The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands, is the current home for the Vermeer masterpiece.