Portrait
Girl Without a Pearl Earring
$1,500
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By Jolanta Johnsson, Doctor of Fine Arts. 2024 Alfred Nobel Memorial Art Scholarship. Work held in museum and private collections across Europe, the USA, and Dubai.
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About This Piece
She isn't a portrait but a tronie — a painting of an imagined figure, a type rather than a person. A girl in a dark red collarless blouse against a cool blue ground, her profile emerging sharply from the shade. Her gaze fixes on something just beyond the frame: intense, and yet somehow calm. Head high, hair in a high chignon, she carries herself with quiet pride.
Unlike Vermeer's famous girl, she wears no pearl, no oriental costume. I named her Pearl Earring Lady because, in her plainness, she seems adorned anyway — completeness needs no jewel.
Vermeer finished only 36 paintings, taking his time with each. This one stayed with me for years, maturing slowly. In that patience I feel close to him.
She's a companion for anyone who wants to look calmly and boldly into the future.
An original painting, signed.
Jolanta Johnsson
