 What was life like in his household?
A new adaptation of Tracy Chevalier’s novel ‘Girl in a Pearl Earring’ has opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, bringing to the stage the story of Vermeer and the women in his life. There is, in fact, relatively little we know for sure about the artist, other than that he lived with his wife, mother-in-law and at least eleven children in Delft in the golden age of Dutch art. So the play, like the book and the film before it, offers us the chance to imagine what might have been. Jane is joined by the author Tracy Chevalier and the Sunday Times Art Critic Waldemar Janusaczak to find out what they think life in the Vermeer household was like as he produced his masterpieces. |
