About the Artwork
Interior with a Woman Combing a Little Girl's Hair
between 1654 and 1662
Jacobus Vrel
active 1654-ca. 1670
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 22 × 16 inches (55.9 × 40.6 cm) Framed: 28 7/8 × 24 1/4 × 2 7/8 inches (73.3 × 61.6 × 7.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of the Knoedler Galleries
28.42
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower right, on paper: Jacobus Vrelle
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Provenance
collection of A. S. Drey (Munich, Germany)
1926, (Art Trade, Munich, Germany)
1927, (Kleykamp Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands), exh. cat. 50
1928, (M. Knoedler and Co., New York, New York, USA)
1928-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Tentoonstelling. Exh. cat., Gallery Kleykamp. The Hague, 1927, cat. 50.
Beeldende Kunst, vol. 15, no. 4 (February 1928): pp. 28-29, pl. 29 [exh. at Kunsthandel Kleykamp in The Hague in 1927].
Valentiner, W. R. "Paintings by Pieter de Hooch and Jacobus Vrel," Bulletin of the DIA 9, no. 7 (April 1929): pp. 78-81, esp. 78-79, (repr.).
Valentiner, W. R. Pieter de Hooch, Des Meisters Gemälde. Berlin & Leipzig, 1929, (KdK) p. 33 [English ed., p. 29].
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 245, (repr.).
Briere-Misme, C. "Un Intimiste Hollandais Jacob Vrel," Revue de l'Art, vol. 68 (1935): pp. 162, 169, (fig. 14).
Thieme-Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 34 (1940): p. 570.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. 1944, p. 141, no. 245.
Bernt, W. Die Niederländischen Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. 3. Munich, 1948, no. 972, (repr.) [as Munich, art trade]; 2nd ed. 1960; 3rd ed. 1969; English ed., The Netherlandish Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London, Phaidon, vol. 3, 1970, no. 1350, (repr.).
Life in Seventeenth Century Holland: Views and Vistas, Pantomimes and Peep Shows. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, November 21, 1950-January 14, 1951, cat. 49.
Light and the Painter. Exh. cat., Cranbrook Art Gallery. Bloomfield Hills, 1952, cat.
Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Painting in Europe 1500-1900. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, October 14-December 12, 1954, cat. 41.
Plietzsch, E. Holländische und Flämische Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Darmstadt, 1960, p. 82.
Mother and Child. Exh. cat., Winnepeg Art Gallery. Winnepeg, Minitoba, May 14-August 13, 1967, cat. 140.
Régnier, G. "Jacob Vrel, un Vermeer du Pauvre," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 71 (May- June, 1968): pp. 269-282, esp. p. 276, (fig. 9).
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. DIA. London, 2004, pp. 246-247 [entry by S. Donahue Kuretsky].
Ebert, Bernd, Cécile Tainturier and Quentin Buvelot. Jacobus Vrel. Exh. cat., Bayerische Staatsgmäldesammlungen, Frits Lugt Collection, and Mauritshuis. Italy, 2021, p. 8 (det. ill.), p. 19 cat. no. 30 (det. ill.), p. 129 (fig. 1), p. 182 (ill.), p. 221 (ill.).
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Jacobus Vrel, Interior with a Woman Combing a Little Girl's Hair, between 1654 and 1662, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Knoedler Galleries, 28.42.
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