Do you regret not being able to go to Amsterdam to admire the exceptional retrospective dedicated to Johannes Vermeer (sold out from the start, 650,000 visitors in total)? Go quietly to the Fondation Custodia. Although located in the heart of Paris, a stone's throw from the National Assembly, this haven of culture is still frequented mainly by insiders.
Specializing in the arts of the Dutch Golden Age, he is currently revealing the work of Jacobus Vrel. This painter named again here and there in the archives Jakob Fröll or J. Frel, Vrelle or even Veerlle, is today, despite all the research - gathered in a first monograph in spring 2021 - very poorly documented.
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But, in the nineteenth century, several of its oils were considered to be from the hand of the "Sphinx of Delft". And not only because the same initials "J" and "V" were signed on it. The art of this fifteen-year-old is very close to that of his famous youngest. Théophile Thoré-Bürger...
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