Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer (1632 to 1675), c. 1665
$191
Print check at 16 x 20 in: 1105 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 6.5% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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She turns, lips parted, as if you had just said her name. Vermeer painted her around 1665 — not a portrait of anyone in particular but a tronie, a study of a face and a costume: the exotic blue-and-gold turban, and that single impossible pearl, rendered in two strokes of white against the shadow of her neck. Everything is stillness and glance. We know almost nothing about her, and that is her power — three and a half centuries of viewers have each supplied the rest. The most intimate anonymous gaze in art.
- Maker
- Johannes Vermeer (1632 to 1675)
- Date
- c. 1665
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Mauritshuis, The Hague
- Credit
- Mauritshuis, The Hague · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00594
| Picture | 16 x 20 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 21.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 2211 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.5% |
| 11 x 14 in | 1579 | Excellent | Trimmed 8.2% |
| 16 x 20 in | 1105 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.5% |
| 24 x 30 in | 737 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 18,920 x 22,112 px, srgb, sRGBz
- Tone
- Darks 23, lights 166 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 37.48
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