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Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

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The Dutch painter Vermeer has remained one of the great enigmas of 17th century Dutch art. While little is known of his personal life, his extraordinary paintings of natural and domestic life, with their subtle play of light and colour, have come to define the Dutch Golden Age. The mysterious portrait of the anonymous 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' has fascinated art historians for centuries, and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.


"Girl with a Pearl Earring" centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmoil as Vermeer and Griet become increasingly intimate, an increasingly tense situation that culminates in her working for Vermeer as his assistant, and ultimately sitting for him as a model.


Chevalier deliberately cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style in homage to Vermeer, and the complex domestic tensions of the Vermeer household are vividly evoked, from the jealous, vain, young wife to the wise, taciturn mother-in-law.

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Binding: Paperback

Number of Pages: 249

Year Published: 2000

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN: 9780006513209

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