Chevalier, Tracy: *1962
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1999 - Other Novels About a Vermeer Painting
- Weber, Katharine: The Music Lesson, 2000
- An Irish-American woman and her IRA-connected lover steal the Vermeer painting, "The Music
Lesson," executed on wood, and while living in hiding with it, Patricia Dolan becomes mesmerized by the work. The Music Lesson is far from your everyday, action-packed IRA saga. It is very much like the intimate portrait the heroine so lovingly describes - an exquisite miniature in which images, ideas, and deep emotions keep coming out of the woodwork.
Katharine Weber writes about "her" painting, "The world has never seen this particular painting by Vermeer, because it does not exist". The Vermeer painting "The Music Lesson" at Buckingham Palace is a different painting altogether. (from "A Note to the Reader")
- An Irish-American woman and her IRA-connected lover steal the Vermeer painting, "The Music
Lesson," executed on wood, and while living in hiding with it, Patricia Dolan becomes mesmerized by the work. The Music Lesson is far from your everyday, action-packed IRA saga. It is very much like the intimate portrait the heroine so lovingly describes - an exquisite miniature in which images, ideas, and deep emotions keep coming out of the woodwork.
- Vreeland, Susan: Girl in Hyacinth Blue, 1999
- This book begins with the last owner of a fictional Vermeer painting and traces all the owners down to the moment when Vermeer created the painting. Thus giving an insight into the various periods.
The Beauty in Ordinary Things, an interview with Susan Vreedland by Linda M. Castellitto, December 2000.
Movie:
Brush with Fate (Girl in Hyacinth Blue), 2003, directed by Brent Shields, starring Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close.
Rating:
- This book begins with the last owner of a fictional Vermeer painting and traces all the owners down to the moment when Vermeer created the painting. Thus giving an insight into the various periods.