Girl With A Pearl Earring

Girl With A Pearl Earring

Short appreciation of 15 masterpieces of seventeenth-century Northern Dutch and Flemish art, by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael and their contemporaries, loaned by Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis to the Frick Collection for the winter. Among them, two which have inspired and given titles to novels: Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring, and Carel Fabritius’s trompe-l’oeil painting The Goldfinch