{"product_id":"johannes-vermeer-girl-with-a-pearl-earring-c-1665-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe is turning towards you, and the turn is the whole picture. The head is caught mid-movement, the mouth just open, the eyes already fixed — Vermeer painted the instant before someone speaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not a portrait. It is a \u003cem\u003etronie\u003c\/em\u003e, a study of a type rather than a person: an anonymous head in imagined dress, the kind of picture a seventeenth-century painter made to show what he could do. Nobody knows who sat for it, or whether anyone sat at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pearl is the demonstration. Look closely and there is no pearl there — two strokes of white lead, one soft and broad for the reflected light of the collar, one sharp on the upper edge, over a ground so thin the canvas shows through. It reads as a pearl only at a distance, which is precisely the trick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent examination has changed the background. What looks like empty black was once a green curtain, painted in a glaze of indigo and weld that has faded and darkened over three and a half centuries. The girl was never floating in the dark; she stood in a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mug carries the whole painting, at the proportions of the canvas, not a detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFine Porcelain — 10 oz. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohannes Vermeer, \u003cem\u003eGirl with a Pearl Earring\u003c\/em\u003e, c. 1665. Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 39 cm. Mauritshuis, The Hague, inv. 670. The museum publishes this image as public domain through Europeana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58368986186059,"sku":"1df5d52a-2a0b-45ed-976f-0235a59e7908","price":32.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/90d4e053-68d7-40fa-a187-71b0224ff4c9.webp?v=1788644581","url":"https:\/\/tazzarte.com\/products\/johannes-vermeer-girl-with-a-pearl-earring-c-1665-porcelain-art-mug","provider":"Tazzarte","version":"1.0","type":"link"}