Elsy Popularity. In the U.S. in 2015, it ranked 3,584 in baby name popularity for girls with 43 occurrences. Less than 5 boys were given the name. In contrast, the year before it ranked 4,281 in baby name popularity for girls with 34 occurrences.
For other uses, see Girl with a Pearl Earring (disambiguation) . Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) 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.
A+E Networks. On this day in 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France.He later documented the event in a painting titled Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.