Picture "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665), framed
Picture "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665), framed
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 980 copies | numbered | certificate | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 67.5 x 57.5 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665), framed
The most popular picture by Jan Vermeer is the portrait "The Girl with a Pearl Earring", painted around 1665. This fame is mainly due to the picture's modern appeal: the girl is depicted at close range, without narrative attributes. She interacts with the viewers by looking directly at them and keeping her mouth slightly open. Vermeer painted the girl's clothing with almost pure colours. Particularly striking is the pearl earring, which reflects the sparkle of the girl's eyes. It is still unknown who the depicted girl is - perhaps the maid Griet, as described in Tracy Chevalier's novel of the same name. In 2003, the book was made into a film by the British film director Peter Webber and was even nominated for three Oscars.
Original: 1665, oil on canvas, 44.5 x 39 cm, Mauritshuis Museum Den Haag.
Fine Art Giclée edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas and stretched on a stretcher frame. Limited edition of 980 copies, numbered, with certificate. Framed in a handmade, golden solid wood frame. Size 67.5 x 57.5 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
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Ein tolles Bild. Es kam sicher verpackt, pünktlich bei mir an. Schön auch, das Befestigungsmaterial in der Lieferung enthalten war.
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Sehr geehrten Damen und Herren,
die Abwicklung hat sehr gut geklappt und das Bild hat noch nicht seinen endgültigen Platz gefunden.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
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Meine Schwiegermutter hat sich sehr über dieses verspätete Weihnachtsgeschenk gefreut. Anlass war die Jan Vermeer Ausstellung in Amsterdam.
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Schönes Bild, gute Qualität, gut verpackt und schnelle Lieferung.
About Jan Vermeer van Delft
Jan Vermeer is one of the most important Dutch painters of the Baroque epoch. He was baptised on October 31, 1632 in Delft and buried there on December 15, 1675. As there was no school of painting in Delft at that time, the son of a silk weaver, art dealer and innkeeper was trained as a craftsman. His admission to the Delft Guild of St. Luke in 1650 testifies to his activity as a master painter. Only 37 of his paintings have survived to this day. His main theme was genre painting, as there are only a few portraits or religious paintings in his œuvre.
The interior views radiate silence, security, and inner peace. The painter from Delft was able to achieve these effects with subtle colour harmonies and refined shadows. He was also a master of the photographic perspective. The genre paintings show few figurative scenes, to which symbolic content is often attributed.
A special mention should be given to Vermeer's Delft City View of 1661, whose naturalism testifies to a high level of mastery. In addition, "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" became the epitome of beauty and grace. For the painter, it was a challenge to bring the viewer into contact with the model. The young woman's eye contact skilfully establishes a connection, but at the same time achieves distance again through the body that is turned away. Many generations of art lovers have rightly been fascinated by the extraordinary expression of this painting.
Vermeer strove for perfection in his painting, often produced only just four paintings a year. As a result, the father of eleven children struggled with financial hardship, which increased during the last years of his life. Right after his death, Jan Vermeer fell into oblivion. It was not until the middle of the 19th-century that people learned to appreciate the quality of his paintings.
Term used to describe the art of the 17th century. The Baroque art style, which originated in Rome around 1600, quickly spread through the visual arts, literature, and music across nerly all of Europe, lasting in the visual arts until 1770. The final phase is generally characterised by Rococo.
Characteristic features include: the pulsating movement of all forms, the abolition of boundaries between architecture, painting, and sculpture, leading to the typical "Gesamtkunstwerk" ("total work of art"), and, above all, the purposeful use of light, which became an important artistic component. The subordination of the individual parts to the whole resulted in the creation of a unified yet dynamic space, which is fully expressed in the magnificent buildings of this period.
The Baroque art, with its penchant for grandeur, splendour, and rushing abundance, clearly reflects the desire for representation, which was a concern of secular and ecclesiastical, especially the Catholic patrons strengthened by the Counter-Reformation. In painting, characteristic features of the Baroque, are manifested in altar and ceiling painting, history scences and portraits.
Typical representatives include artists such as Anthony van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, as well as Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the field of sculpture.
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Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, to spray".
The Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format print produced with an inkjet printer using special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The inks are lightfast, meaning they are resistant to harmful UV light. They provide a high level of nuance, contrast, and saturation.
The Giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade paper and watercolour paper as well as silk.