Girl with a Pearl Earring – Canvas Print

Known as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North’ Johannes Vermeer’s 1665 painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” has been the source of inspiration for countless imitations, posters, films, and books. Yet for much of its lifetime the painting was an underrated curiosity. When the canvas entered the collection of the Mauritshuis gallery in The Hague in 1902 its dramatic journey truly begun. Unfortunately, following over two centuries of obscurity the painting arrived into the twentieth century in a very poor state of repair, and has suffered from a number of botched restorations ever since. Visible, trailing cracks trickle down the canvas like pulsing veins, lending the work a corporeal yet degenerated look. But it is the deep, intimate gaze of Vermeer’s girl that commands the viewer’s attention