Description: The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Jan Vermeer’s most famous painting, is often called the "Dutch Mona Lisa". The comparison to Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting Mona Lisa makes sense: both paintings share an air of mystery, from the model’s enigmatic gaze to the speculations surrounding the identities of the women in the paintings. The identity of the model in this painting remains unknown. Some have suggested that it is Vermeer’s eldest daughter, Maria.
