Meisje met de Parel

The portrait of the girl with a pearl earring is painted with acrylic on a printed background of images. It is a modern adaptation of the painting with the same name by Vermeer. 

The background of the painting consists of decorated Delft blue tiles. The drawings on the tiles tell the story of the Girl with a Pearl Earring. She lived in Vermeer's house and took care of his children (children playing). Vermeer was believed to be secretly in love with her (and she with him) and that he therefore painted her (Cupid). The pearl she has in her ear is not hers, but his wife's. Vermeer submitted it to her because something was still missing from the overall picture. The Vermeer family lived for the outside world in luxury (sumptuous fruit bowl) but that was only apparent because Vermeer took a very long time to 1 painting and only sold a few a year, while he had a large family to support (faded tulip).

The link between the tiles and the portrait is that they were both made in Delft and coincidentally also in exactly the same period. Hence the delft blue tiles as a background. The red painted letters form the word Pearl. On the one hand, of course, because of the pearl in the painting, on the other hand because not so long ago a survey among the population in the Netherlands showed that this is considered the most beautiful painting ever made in the Netherlands. A pearl of a painting!