His own Dutch women look beyond the panes.
Otherwise, he too described the quiet street and quiet home life in the United Provinces during the Golden Age.
No doubt with less poetry and virtuosity but perhaps with more humor and a naive charm.
In short, to quickly judge Jacob Vrel (1617-1681) as a minor artist would be to deprive himself of his attraction...
At the Mauritshuis in The Hague for lack of its Vermeer, the museum is preparing to present it in detail.
Yet of this painter we know even less than for the already very enigmatic "sphinx of Delft".
We can just be sure that this fifteen-year-old eldest, probably from the province of Friesland, was also active in Haarlem, the city where the truculent Frans Hals reigned.
In Delft, how pioneering was he?
The meeting of thirteen of his surviving paintings (out of a total production estimated at around fifty as for Vermeer), including the only dated one that will be sent by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna...
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