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.
A Youth with a Jug the boy is similar to that of another painting attributed to Leyster in the Bristol Art Gallery. The painter Frans Hals also made a youthful kannekijker in his "Two laughing boys with mug of beer": A Youth with a Jug A Youth with a Jug is an oil painting currently in a private collection. This painting was first documented as being in the collection of Arthur Kay who published his "Treasure Trove of Art" in 1939, including this "Youth with a Jug" as one of a series on the five senses painted by Judith Leyster. Later the five paintings were