Woman with a Pearl Necklace Woman with a Pearl Necklace Woman with a Pearl Necklace by Johannes Vermeer is a seventeenth-century Northern European painting. Painted in oils on canvas, Johannes Vermeer portrayed a young Dutch woman, most likely of upper-class-descent, dressing herself with two yellow ribbons, pearl earrings, and a pearl necklace. As a very popular artist of the 17th century, the Dutch Golden Age, Vermeer depicted many women in similar circumstances within interior, domestic scenes. The same woman also appears in "The Love Letter" and "A Lady Writing a Letter". Johannes Vermeer (1632- 1675) of Delft was one of Netherlands' most prominent Dutch painters.
The Old Lacemaker The Old Lacemaker The Old Lacemaker (circa 1655) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Mauritshuis. The painting shows a woman making bobbin lace and the lace pillow she is using is the same in all the paintings Maes made of lacemakers: This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1914, who wrote; "71. An Old Lace-Maker. Sm. Suppl. 7. An old woman with spectacles, facing the spectator, sits making lace. She wears a black jacket with