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
Girl with a Pearl Earring a Pearl Earring" (1999), fictionalized the circumstances of the painting's creation. There, Vermeer becomes close to a servant named Griet whom he uses as an assistant and has sit for him as a model while wearing his wife's earrings. The novel also inspired the 2003 film and 2008 play of the same name. The painting also appears in the 2007 film "St Trinian's", when a group of unruly schoolgirls steal it to raise funds to save their school. Ethiopian American artist, Awol Erizku recreated the painting as a print in 2009, centering a young black woman and replacing the pearl