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Jacobus Vrel : looking for clues to an enigmatic artist / edited by Bernd Ebert, Cécile Tainturier and Quentin Buvelot ; with a catalogue raisonné ; authors, Bernd Ebert [and eleven others].

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Jacobus Vrel : looking for clues to an enigmatic artist / edited by Bernd Ebert, Cécile Tainturier and Quentin Buvelot ; with a catalogue raisonné ; authors, Bernd Ebert [and eleven others].
Publication
  • Munich : Hirmer : Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen ; The Hague : Mauritshuis, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany), host institution.
  • Buvelot, Quentin,
  • Collection Frits Lugt, host institution.
  • Ebert, Bernd,
  • Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands), host institution.
  • Tainturier, Cécile,
  • Vrel, Jacobus, active 1654-1662,
Description
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits; 28 x 22 cm.
Summary
His pictures look curious, his figures introverted and his street scenes strangely stage-like. Jacobus Vrel records everyday life in Holland during the 17th century, and creates quirky worlds at the same time. This volume presents the fascinating complete œuvre of a painter whose works were thought to have been painted by Vermeer during the 19th century. Jacobus Vrel is like a phantom. No written sources describing him or his work have ever been discovered. His existence is documented only by some 50 surviving works which can hardly be compared with those of his contemporaries. His works, in their austerity and sometimes oppressive silence, seem unexpectedly modern, and have been compared to the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershøi. With detective-like investigative flair, and on the basis of extensive technical examinations of the paintings, this monograph explores the mysterious pictures of this rediscovered painter. Exhibition: Alte Pinakothek, München, Germany (13.10.2020-10.01.2021 - Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic) / Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, France (29.01.- 18.04.2021) / Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands (20.05.-29.08.2021).
Subject
  • Vrel, Jacobus, active 1654-1662 > Catalogues raisonnés
  • Vrel, Jacobus, active 1654-1662 > Exhibitions
  • Vrel, Jacobus, active 1654-1662
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Alte Pinakothek, München, Germany, October 13, 2020-January 10, 2021; Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, France, January 29-April 18, 2021; Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands, May 20-August 29, 2021.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Translations fron German, French, Dutch.
Call Number
ND653.V74
ISBN
  • 9783777435879
  • 3777435872
OCLC
  • on1264399010
  • 1264399010
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries