Venus Pearl Drop Earrings*The Met Store Best

Art jewelry inspired by The Met collection.

In his acclaimed Venus in Front of a Mirror, painted about 1614–15, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) portrays the voluptuous Venus, goddess of love, with her back to the viewer. Her son, the boyish god Amor, holds a mirror that allows the viewer to meet Venus’s gaze in reflection. She wears nothing but a bracelet and a pair of pearl earrings—one white, the other (reflected in the mirror) appearing black. Our elegant earrings celebrate the goddess’s alluring adornments.

Produced in cooperation with the Princely Collections of Liechtenstein

Click here to learn more about the artwork that inspired these earrings.