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#JacobusVrel

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦<p>&quot;Young Woman in an Interior,&quot; Jacobus Vrel, c. 1660.</p><p>Next to nothing is known of Vrel, who flourished from c. 1654 to c. 1670. We don&#39;t know his dates or even if he was Dutch, Flemish, or Westphalian. We&#39;re not even sure where he operated, except three of his city scenes have been placed in the Dutch town of Zwolle. </p><p>Like a number of Dutch Golden Age painters, Vrel did scenes of everyday life. Here we have a scene in a bedroom...in the very back is a curtained bed recessed into the wall, where we we can see a woman sleeping. The young woman of the title, evidently a nurse, sits at her side, idly looking out the open door. She seems bored, or perhaps is just lost in thought, or wishing she were out in the sunlight....</p><p>In the past, unscrupulous dealers have altered his signature to falsely attribute his paintings to Pieter de Hooch or even Johannes Vermeer! Still, a Vrel gets studied closely these days, largely because historians want to piece together as much about this mysterious painter as they can.</p><p>From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DutchGoldenAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DutchGoldenAge</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/JacobusVrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JacobusVrel</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WomenInArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInArt</span></a></p>
Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦<p>&quot;Street Scene with People Conversing,&quot; Jaocbus Vrel, after 1633.</p><p>Vrel&#39;s street scenes are fascinating, partly because they&#39;re so dreamlike and eerie, not naturalistic. They almost seems like backdrops from a silent movie.</p><p>From the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/JacobusVrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JacobusVrel</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/StreetScene" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StreetScene</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Dreamscapes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dreamscapes</span></a></p>
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