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Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is back on display in the usual location

12 Mar 2018

Mh0670 Vermeer Meisje Met De Parel

Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, the public’s favourite from the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, is back on display in the usual location in Room 15. The past two weeks, the painting has undergone in-depth scientific examination, conducted in the museum’s Golden Room.

While the public and the press looked on with great interest, a team of international researchers applied a range of examination techniques. The painting is now one of the best documented works of art in the world. The Mauritshuis hopes to find out more about how Vermeer painted Girl with a Pearl Earring and what materials he used. Research will continue by analysing the terabytes of data collected. Final results will only be available after thorough analysis and comparison of these data.

Grote media belangstelling voor het onderzoek naar het Meisje met de Parel

The research project The Girl in the Spotlight is an initiative of the Mauritshuis, involving a team of internationally recognised specialists associated with the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science (NICAS). The NICAS partners are Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology, Cultural Heritage Agency of The Netherlands (RCE) and the University of Amsterdam. Cooperating in this project were: Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam (STCA), Maastricht University, University of Antwerp, National Gallery of Art Washington and Hirox Europe.