Jan Vermeer 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' Canvas Art, 18x24

• Artist: Jan Vermeer
• Subject: Portrait
• Style: Impressionism
• Product Type: Gallery-wrapped canvas art

This ready to hang, gallery wrapped art piece features a portrait of a young woman with pearl earrings.

Jan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He worked slowly and with great care, u sing bright colors and sometimes expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and us of light in his work. Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes.

Giclee (jee-clay) is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable excellence that Giclee printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original piece. The result is wide acceptance of Giclee by galleries, museums, and private collectors. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting.