~Trade Paperback, Movie Tie-In Cover
~ Winner of the ALA Alex Award - 2001
The Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art with little being known about his personal life, yet his extraordinary paintings of domestic life have since come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' has exerted a particular fascination for centuries, and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Centering on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s, Girl with the Pearl Earring follows a quietly perceptive sixteen-year-old servant who becomes increasingly intimate with her master, becomes his assistant and ultimately sits as his model.