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Jacobus Vrel
1635 - 1672
A Street Scene with Figures.
Oil on Panel, 36.4 x 27.9 cm
ENQUIRIES
Provenance
Private collection, Germany, by 1949;
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 31 May 1979, lot 117, where sold after the sale;
Joost R. Ritman (b. 1941), Amsterdam;
Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1995, lot 6, where acquired by the following,
Art Dealer, The Netherlands;
Private collection, The Netherlands, by January 1996.
E. Plietzsch, 'Jacobus Vrel und Esaias Boursse', Zeitschrift für Kunst, III, 1949, pp. 252-3, fig. 134;
E. Mai, ed., Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII Jahrhundert, Cologne, 1993, p. 268;
D. Lokin, 'Views in and of Delft, 1650-1675', Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries. Illusionism Through the Conquest of Light and Space, exhibition catalogue, Delft, 1996, pp. 103-4, fig. 86;
E. Mai, 'Wer war Jacobus Vrel? Hypothesen zum sogenannten "Vermeer der Armen"', Kölner Museums-Bulletin, IV, 2003, p. 55, under note 31, and p. 66, fig. 31;
B. Ebert, C. Tainturier and Q. Buvelot, eds., Jacobus Vrel: Searching for Clues to an Enigmatic Artist, Munich and The Hague, 2021, pp. 80-1, 99, 110, under notes 38 and 40, 133, 165 and pp. 211-2, no. 13, illustrated.
Exhibition
The Hague, Mauritshuis and Paris, Fondation Custodia, Vrel: Forerunner of Vermeer, 16 February-17 September 2023, no. 13.
