The exhibition, officially titled Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis at the de Young also features 34 other paintings by Dutch Golden Age masters, including works by Rembrandt, Peiter Claesz, Jacob van Ruisdael and Frans Hals.
Abraham van Beyeren, Pieter Claesz and Willem Heda, the masters of the masters, could paint with no sign of a brushstroke banquet tables displaying dozens of different surfaces and reflections of food, drink and tableware, vases overflowing with 30 varieties of realistic flowers from all seasons.
