The Girl In Hyacinthe Blue
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue, is a novel of a great interest. The novel is about a painting that is believed to be Vermeer, by the last owner. Could this painting be an undiscovered Vermeer? Where is its paperwork? Each subsequent story draws us deeper into the fascinating history of the painting. We explore various places and times and meet compelling and all too human characters. There is a Jewish family struggling to stay alive during WWII. In another story a couple must sell the painting to feed an abandoned child recovered during a debilitating flood. As our journey nears the end, we\'re actually to the beginning - we meet the artist and the inspiration that created the painting. And we learn the sad circumstances, by which it lost its certification, to go forever forward like an illegitimate child. The painting that is a true Vermeer is a representation of something missing in all the characters lives. Whether it is a monetary or personal problem the painting fills the void. The book opens in the 1990’s with the son of a German Nazi Officer, Cornelius Engelbrecht, whom is obsessed with a painting that he believes to be a true Vermeer. He agonizes over his love of it because he knows his father obtained the piece by killing
Larens van Luyken purchased a painting of a young girl in a blue dress as an anniversary gift for his wife, Digna, not realizing how the painting would come to change his life. Larens purchased the painting because of the memory that flashed in his mind as he saw the painting, he would later grow to love the painting and the sentimental value that it possessed to his heart and soul. The memory that flashed in his mind was that of his first true love that he foolish lost, when he was younger, because of this memory he does not want to give the painting to his daughter whom is going to be married soon to Fritz in the year of 1899. Larens is missing his first true love, and the painting will always represent what he foolish lost so many years before. In A Night Different From All Other Nights, a Jewish family owns the painting during World War II. The painting is purchased for Hannah on her 11th birthday from her father. Hannah sees the girl in the blue dress as a model of pensive contemplation amid the rising of anti-Semitism. During Passover, Hannah kills the families’ pet pigeons; this is a direct correlation to Passover, because as Hannah commits this “adult” action she is passing from a child to an adult. The void that Hannah is trying to fill is the she feels unloved and not understood in her family, her mother and grandmother both voice opinions on how they do not appreciate the way that she acts, and wish that she would change. In the city of Hague in the year of 1803 the French aristocrat Gerald buys a
Some topics in this essay:
Passover Hannah,
Hyacinth Blue,
Saskia Stijn,
Noble Gerald,
Cornelius Engelbrecht,
Vermeer Cornelius,
War II,
Claudine Gerald,
Nights Jewish,
sell painting,
jewish family,
unhappy marriage,
girl blue dress,
vermeer agonizes,
memory flashed,
painting believes,
flashed mind,
girl blue,
passover hannah,
memory flashed mind,
foolish lost,
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Approximate Word count = 1031
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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