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Who is the girl with the pearl earring?

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Be it Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's The Girl with a Pearl Earring (no, not the film version), Frans Hal's 1624 painting The Laughing Cavalier, or even the Mona Lisa and her enigmatic smile, the identities behind famous portraits have until now been lost to history. read more

Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a tronie of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902. read more

In any case, the most frequently mentioned candidate for the model for the Girl with a Pearl Earring is Vermeer’s eldest daughter Maria, who was probably born in 1654. Maria would have been about twelve by 1665-1667, the dating scholars have assigned to the painting, although dating Vermeer's work has proved particularly vexing. read more