A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel Judith Leyster, 1635
A Card Player Judith Leyster, 1630
Boy with a cat, red hat and a piece of bread Judith Leyster, 1630
Girl with a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer, 1665
Jolly Toper Judith Leyster, 1629
A type of painting that illustrates an exaggerated facial expression or a commonly-known character—angels, beggars, old people, farmers or jesters. Common in Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish Baroque painting. The most famous tronie is undoubtedly Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
