The painting is also called : The Mona Lisa of North in reference to Leonardo da Vinci and Mona Lisa but this Mona Lisa there is much less wise and much more sensual. One can develop during hours the brilliance of the eyes, the lips wet, the accessories, the turban and the pearl, the feeling of presence which emerges from the painting; the almost photographic precision of the touch of the painter, essence is not there. The essence comes from the feeling of intimacy which is woven between the model and the spectator when this one looks at the picture. Few portraits make to such a degree of proximity between spectator and subject represented. The glance is of an almost violent and tough penetration. The young girl with the pearl is there, close to us, apart from time, beyond the centuries…. The painting was restored in 1994, we will see that the reflections and the light play a big role, many parts of the face and of the accessories are represented so as to hang a maximum of light. On the wet lips and in the middle of the eyes one guesses the reflection of a window…