The work is signed "IV Meer" and the signature was unveiled after a restoration done in 1901, when the painting belonged to two London merchants.
The subject is the work that tells the Gospel story of Jesus visiting the home of Martha of Bethany and her sister Mary. In the Gospel according to Luke 10:38-42 tells of Jesus as the two sisters welcome at home, but while Martha takes care of the housework, Mary sits down to hear the word of Jesus when Martha complains with Jesus, but they replied: "Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things, but there is only one thing that is needed. Mary has chosen the better part, which shall not be removed. "
This is one of the few paintings of Vermeer of a religious nature, given that the artist is the painter of "skin" of things, rather than spirituality. Vermeer will be converted to Catholicism shortly before his death.
depicts a young girl after three quarters particularly affects the expression ecstatic, absolutely languid and charming (some even charge an innocent eroticism) the gaze of the young model: Vermeer seems to have been the same to ask the girl, placed in front of large window with natural light of his studio, to turn his head slowly several times, having parted her lips to produce this effect.
The legend that surrounds this beautiful picture - and that those with a touch of sentimentality, the biography of a great painter to whom we still know very little, and that just left: thirty paintings in all and all small - is was recalled in 2003 to film a movie called The Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Scarlett Johansson and based on the novel by the writer Tracy Chevalier.
(source Wilkipedia)
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