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Johannes Vermeer · c.1662–64

Woman with a Pearl Necklace

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A young woman in a yellow ermine-trimmed jacket holds up the ribbons of her pearl necklace and looks at herself in a small mirror by the window, across a bare white wall. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

Up to 16 × 18.6 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

16″18.6″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Woman with a Pearl Necklace

The same yellow jacket with ermine trim appears in several of Vermeer's paintings and was listed in the inventory of his estate. Technical study showed that Vermeer first painted a map on the back wall and then removed it, leaving the empty lit wall that gives the picture its calm. The painting has been in the Berlin museums since 1874.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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