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Hard to decide between it and Jan Lievens's ravishing "Young Girl in Profile,'' but this large portrait study, or "tronie,'' makes such a lively impression that it's difficult to look away.

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However, this painting was certainly not a portrait in the 17th-century sense of the term, but rather a tronie.

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Johan Larson, a Hague/London sculptor was known to have had another Vermeer tronie valued at only 10 guilders.

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In deference to the category, a Rembrandt tronie was sold for a mere 7 guilders in the same sale as the two Vermeer's.

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However, is not out of the question that it was another tronie sold in the same auction for only 17 guilders.

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Some scholars conjecture that it corresponds to "a tronie in antique dress, uncommonly artful" sold at 46 guilders, a trifle if compared to the equally-sized

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The hierarchical importance of subject matter was held in great consideration and a tronie such as the Girl with a

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Girl with a Pearl Earring was not seen as a portrait but a tronie, a sort of characteristic bust-length figure whose ability to capture the purchaser's eye, rather than the sitter's identity, was the artist's main concern.

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Critics now believe that Vermeer drew his inspiration from art rather than life, specifically from Michael Sweerts 'and Holding a Nosegay, an excellent example of the Dutch tronie tradition.

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His Faces Get In Ours: It seems Lievens and Rembrandt may deserve joint credit for inventing the peculiarly Dutch art of the character study, known as a "tronie."

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