ID 1086618
Lot 12 | JACOBUS VREL (ACTIVE C. 1635-C. 1672 OR LATER)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
A street scene with figures
oil on panel
14 3⁄8 x 11 in. (36.4 x 27.9 cm.)
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.
Literature
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.
Exhibited
The Hague, Mauritshuis and Paris, Fondation Custodia, Vrel: Forerunner of Vermeer, 16 February-17 September 2023, no. 13.
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