Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) anticipating that the match will be to their benefit. Apart from "Girl with a Pearl Earring" itself, in which Griet is the sitter, several more of Vermeer’s paintings feature in Chevalier’s novel. At the very start, "View of Delft" is recalled by Griet’s father. When Griet enters the household, Vermeer is working on "Woman with a Pearl Necklace" and Tanneke mentions soon after that she had been Vermeer’s model for "The Milkmaid". His next subject is "Woman with a Water Jug", for which the baker’s daughter models. Griet describes the painting to her father and also witnesses its creation in
Johannes Vermeer Van Meegeren who stages highly exact scenes from Vermeer paintings in order to paint copies of them. John Jost's film "All the Vermeers in New York" (1990) makes reference to a woman's resemblance to a Vermeer painting. Dutch composer Louis Andriessen based his opera "Writing to Vermeer" (1997–98, libretto by Peter Greenaway) on the domestic life of Vermeer. Brian Howell's novel "The Dance of Geometry" (Toby Press, 2004) narrates four interlinking episodes that centre around the creation of Vermeer's "The Music Lesson", dealing with his childhood and courtship of his wife-to-be, a visit by a French traveller who becomes involved