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Girl with a Pearl Earring (detail)
c. 1665
Oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague
The girl is wearing an exotic turban and is set against a neutral, dark background, very nearly black, which establishes a powerful three-dimensionality of effect - a process recommended by Leonardo da Vinci.