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Chevalier, Tracy.
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Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Artists' models -- Fiction.
Women household employees -- Fiction.
Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1714 -- Fiction.
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Chevalier, Tracy.
Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Artists' models -- Fiction.
Women household employees -- Fiction.
Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1714 -- Fiction.
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Girl with a pearl earring / Tracy Chevalier.
by
Chevalier, Tracy.
Penguin Group, [2001], c1999.
Call #:
FICTION
CHE
Subjects
Vermeer
,
Johannes
,
1632-1675
--
Fiction
.
Artists
--
Fiction
.
Artists' models
--
Fiction
.
Women household employees
--
Fiction
.
Netherlands
--
History
--
1648-1714
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780452282155 (trade pbk.)
Description:
233 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1999.
Summary:
"The story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter
Johannes
Vermeer
. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in her household duties, but also attracts the painter's attention. Though different in upbringing, education and social standing, they have a similar way of looking at things.
Vermeer
slowly draws her into the world of his paintings - the still, luminous images of solitary women in domestic settings. In contrast to her work in her master's studio, Griet must carve a place for herself in a chaotic Catholic household run by
Vermeer
's volatile wife Catharina, his shrewd mother-in-law Maria Thins, and their fiercely loyal maid Tanneke. Six children (and counting) fill out the household, dominated by six-year-old Cornelia, a mischievous girl who sees more than she should. On the verge of womanhood, Griet also contends with the growing attentions both from a local butcher and from
Vermeer
's patron, the wealthy van Ruijven. And she has to find her way through this new and strange life outside the loving Protestant family she grew up in, now fragmented by accident and death. As Griet becomes part of her master's work, their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within the ordered household and even - as the scandal seeps out - ripples in the world beyond."--Author's website.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Biographical
fiction
.
Holds:
3
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