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Erisava Staff Jul 18

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, 1665

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Mauritshuis · wikidata.org

Public domain

According to what I've read, nobody's ever identified who she actually was — this is what's called a 'tronie,' a study of a face or expression rather than a portrait of a real sitter. There's apparently ongoing debate over whether that earring is even a real pearl, since a stone that size would've cost a fortune at the time.