Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel)[1][2] is an oil painting by 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a tronie of a girl with a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902.
The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a 'head' that was not meant to be a portrait. It depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an improbably large pearl earring.[1] In 2014, Dutch astrophysicist Vincent Icke raised doubts about the material of the earring and argued that it looks more like polished tin than pearl on the grounds of the specular reflection, the pear shape and the large size of the earring.[3][4]
The work is oil on canvas and is 44.5 cm (17.5 in) high and 39 cm (15 in) wide. It is signed "IVMeer" but not dated. It is estimated to be painted around 1665.[5]
After the most recent restoration of the painting in 1994, the subtle color scheme and the intimacy of the girl's gaze toward the viewer have been greatly enhanced.[6] During the restoration, it was discovered that the dark background, today somewhat mottled, was initially intended by the painter to be a deep enamel-like green. This effect was produced by applying a thin transparent layer of paint, called a glaze, over the present-day black background. However, the two organic pigments of the green glaze, indigo and weld, have faded.
基本上，對弗美尔本人或者他的作品，後人所知的都不多。畫作署名「IVMeer」，但沒有日期。沒有人知道這幅畫作的代理權誰屬，甚至不知道作者有沒有交付過代理權給任何人。近年有專家指出此畫作可能是一幅「tronie」，即17世紀的荷蘭流行的頭像，而這種頭像嚴格而言算不上是一幅畫作。於1994年的修復後，畫作精密的顏色運用及畫中少女對其觀察者的親密目光更被專家所留意。無論如何，這一幅畫都不只是普通的肖像畫。画家可能在嘗試捕捉這個女孩（身份不明，但一般相信是弗美尔的女兒瑪丽亞）對剛發現的某人回眸的樣子。
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