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
The Brown Jug is on sale on news stands, hotel stands and railroad stations in Providence, New York and Boston."" The cover of the "Jug"s first issue showed a girl in party dress and hat emerging from a bandbox holding a small bear; it proclaimed this the “Coming Out Number,” and the masthead identified it as “Vintage of 1920 ... Jugful Number 1.” Since its founding, the "Brown Jug" has been dissolved and resurrected a number of times by various Brown students and organizations. Humorist S. J. Perelman was editor and cartoonist for the Jug in 1924 and 1925. It first ceased publication