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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier

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Jeane, March 16, 2008

A fictional account of Johannes Vermeer's household, told through the eyes of a young maid, Griet. Vermeer puts her to work in his private studio, cleaning and doing rudimentary preparations for his paintings (like grinding pigments). The continual mundane labor of Griet's days is described in a slow, poetic fashion against building emotional friction in the household. Griet alone is privledged to enter the master's sacrosanct studio, and pretty enough that one day Vermeer asks her to pose for him. Eventually the novel builds into a tense household drama and scandal, over the painting of one of Vermeer's most famous portraits.

Griet is something of an anomaly. She is very quiet, observant, and hardworking, but also (for an uneducated maid) surprisingly outspoken and forward-thinking. Much of the book is about the slow awakening of her intellect and spirit. My only complaint is the lack of illustrations; I would have liked to see the paintings as I read about them.

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