LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

20.91 in. (53.10 cm.) (height) by 15.91 in. (40.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed upper centre on a banderole: JACOBUS VRELL

Exhibited:

Atlanta, High Museum of Art,. Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age , 24 September - 10 November 1985, no. 57

Literature:

W.R Valentiner, 'Dutch genre paintings in the manner of P. de Hooch, II. Jacobus Vrel', . Art in America, 1929, pp. 91-92;. C. Brière-Misme, 'Un 'intimiste' Hollandais - Jacob Vrel', Revue de l'Art, November 1935, pp. 110, n. 2, reproduced p. 107, fig. 5; E. Plietzsch, 'Jacobus Vrel und Esaias Boursse', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 4 , 1949, pp. 248 ff.; W.R. Valentiner, 'Jacques de Ville or Jacobus Vrel', Bulletin of the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art , I, 2, 1959, pp. 23 ff.; G. Regnier, 'Jacob Vrel, un Vermeer du Pauvre', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, May-June 1968, reproduced p. 281, fig. 15; . W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts , Munich 1980, vol. III, reproduced plate 1432; . E.A. Honig, Everything there is to know about.. Jacob Vrel , MS, RKD, The Hague, 25 March 1985, no. B-5; . F.J. Duparc, Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age , exh. cat., Atlanta 1985, p. 126, no. 57, reproduced; E.A. Honig, 'Looking in (to) Jacob Vrel', in Yale Journal of Criticism , III, 1, 1989, pp. 37 ff; E. M[ai], in E. Mai (ed.), Das Kabinett des Sammlers , Cologne 1993, pp. 267-68, no. 105, reproduced

Provenance:

Günther Fasano, Lago di Garda, Italy;. With Bernheimer, Munich; . With Julius Böhler, Munich; . From whom acquired by John D. McIlhenny (1910-1986), Philadelphia, on 21 January 1915; . By inheritance to his widow, by 1935; . With Gebr. Douwes, London, 1979-80 (by whom advertised in Apollo , March 1980); . Acquired for the present collection shortly after, and certainly by 1985