"In which European city is the Maurithuis Museum, which houses Vermeer's, ""Girl with a Pearl Earring""?"
Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring () is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a "tronie" of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a 'head' that was not meant to be a portrait. It depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an
Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) reaction to it in the present. Thus it was noted that the 2001 exhibition of “Vermeer and the Delft School” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York “attracted almost twice the number of visitors than the Vermeer exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1996. For Walter Liedtke, the gallery's curator of European paintings, the success of [the exhibition] was due, at least in part, to Chevalier's novel.” Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel written by Tracy Chevalier. Set in 17th century Delft, Holland,