Baroque makes a style comeback with this intriguing tote bag featuring Vermeer’sGirl with a Pearl Earring,now more mysterious than ever! A timeless masterpiece with a contemporary twist sized perfectly to carry all your essentials.
Inspiration Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring c. 1665
Dimensions 13.5" x 17.5" 34 cm x 45 cm
Material: Canvas Care instruction: Washable. Dry flat.
About Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. It is his most famous work of art.
Girl with a Pearl Earringis not a portrait, but a “tronie”: a painting of an imaginary figure. While many of Vermeer’s paintings depict women involved in daily tasks, such as chores, reading or writing,Girl with a Pearl Earringfeatures an unidentified young woman doing nothing but looking over her shoulder to gaze directly at the viewer.
Johannes Vermeer (1632 –1675) was a Dutch Baroque Periodpainter known for his domestic interior scenes of 17th-century life, remarkable for their purity of light and form. During his lifetime, he produced relatively few paintings, only less than 40 are known today.
Vermeer worked slowly and meticulously, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is revered as a master of light; in the painting, light reflects differently on the girl’s skin, lips, clothes and earring.
