Johannes Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' (c. 1665) is a small 44 × 39 cm tronie — not a portrait of a specific person but an 'expressive head' genre — in which a young woman turns over her shoulder, a teardrop pearl gleaming at her ear and her softly parted lips catching the light against a deep black ground. Often dubbed the 'Mona Lisa of the North', she is among the most reproduced images in Western art and the principal treasure of the Mauritshuis in The Hague.

Exhibition Venue

Mauritshuis

The Hague, Netherlands