''Young Woman Stringing Pearls'' is a 1658 painting by the Dutch artist

Frans van Mieris the Elder Frans van Mieris the Elder (16 April 163512 March 1681), was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan (1660–1690) and Willem (1662–1747) and his grandson Frans van Mieri ...

. It has been in the collection of the

Musée Fabre The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault ''département''. The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 m ...

, in

Montpellier Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of ...

, France, since 1836.Michel Hilaire, ''Guide Musée Fabre'', 2007, p. 29 (French)

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Paintings by Frans van Mieris the Elder Paintings in the Musée Fabre 1658 paintings {{1650s-painting-stub