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Do you want to be the girl with the pearl earring in Vermeer’s masterpiece?

Fans encouraged to send versions of the famous 17th-century painting for 'My Girl with a Pearl' initiative at The Mauritshuis

The Art Newspaper
29 December 2022
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One of the entries to the My Girl with a Pearl initiative at the Mauritshuis museum. Fans of Vermeer’s painting are invited to send in photographs of their own interpretations

© thisgirlwithapearl

One of the entries to the My Girl with a Pearl initiative at the Mauritshuis museum. Fans of Vermeer’s painting are invited to send in photographs of their own interpretations

© thisgirlwithapearl

Do you want to be the girl wearing the pearl earring in Vermeer’s masterpiece? The Mauritshuis in The Hague has hit on a novel idea for filling the empty spot on the wall when the famous painting travels to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in February for a blockbuster Vermeer exhibition. Devotees of the painting are being invited to send their own versions of the image for the My Girl with a Pearl initiative. “The rules? Well, there aren’t many,” states the Mauritshuis website. “Feel free to surprise us. A self-portrait in a bath towel turban, a painted iron or even a pile of dishes: more or less anything goes.”

The best photographs submitted will be digitally displayed in a loop on the spot where the painting normally hangs, while other selected images will be shown elsewhere in the room. Vermeer fans can meanwhile get their Girl fix on Instagram where the Mauritshuis has started the account @mygirlwithapearl.

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