Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel)

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Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel by Tracy Chevalier, fictionalizing the circumstances surrounding the creation of Johannes Vermeer's famous painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring. In the novel, Vermeer becomes close with a fictional servant named Griet, whom he hires as an assistant and has sit for him as a painting model while wearing one of his wife's pearl earrings. The novel inspired a 2003 film and a 2008 play, both of the same name. The novel sold over two million copies in thirty-six languages.

Tropes used in Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) include:

• Betty and Veronica: A gender-flipped example: Pieter the son as Betty and Vermeer as Veronica, with Griet as the Archie.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Cornelia.
• Dead Little Sister: Agnes
• Meaningful Name: Griet is the Dutch from of 'Margaret,' which is Greek for pearl.
• Person with the Clothing
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Griet's eyes appear to have an entrancing affect on a few characters, all who say something along the lines of: "You have very wide eyes." They're given a lot of attention in the book, also being described as "quite luminous", like "liquid were spilling into them".