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This Vermeer painting depicts a young woman wearing a blue-and-yellow head covering and a prominent teardrop-shaped earring.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring: Portrait sometimes called the Mona Lisa of the North. Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring ↗

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