By far the most famous Johannes Vermeer painting in the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague is the Girl with a Pearl Earring — in contrast to most other portrait paintings or tronies by Vermeer, she fills the whole space with no further characters or background. Art collector AA des Tombe bought the painting in an auction for around €1 in 1881 and bequeathed it to the Mauritshuis.
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