Details: Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665
General information
Artist
Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675)
Titel
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Dating
c. 1665
Object name
painting
Material and technical details
Technique
oil
Material
canvas
Dimensions
height: 44.5 cm
width: 39 cm
width: 39 cm
Other details
Inscriptions
signed: IVMeer
Inventory number
670
Origin
(?) Pieter Claesz van Ruijven, Delft, before 1674; (?) his widow, Maria de Knuijt, Delft, 1674-1681; (?) their daughter Magdalena van Ruijven, and Jacob Dissius, Delft, 1681-1682; (?) Jacob Dissius (with his father Abraham Dissius, 1685-1694), Delft, 1682-1695; Dissius sale, Amsterdam, 16 May 1696, lot 38 (f36,-), 39 (f17,-) or 40 (f17,-); Braams sale, The Hague, 1881 (day and month unknown) (f2,30 to Des Tombe); A.A. des Tombe, The Hague, 1881-1902 (on loan to the Mauritshuis in 1881); bequest of Arnoldus Andries des Tombe, The Hague, 1903
