In the film Girl with a Pearl Earring , Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer is responsible for the girl with a pearl earring painting .
Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet , a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer ( played by Colin Firth ) at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring ( 1665 ) .
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