Interior with a Woman Combing a Little Girl's Hair

between 1654 and 1662

Jacobus Vrel Dutch, active 1654-ca. 1670

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Interior with a Woman Combing a Little Girl's Hair

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Title Interior with a Woman Combing a Little Girl's Hair

Artwork Date between 1654 and 1662

Artist Jacobus Vrel

Life Dates active 1654-ca. 1670

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions 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)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of the Knoedler Galleries

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 28.42

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Signed Signed, lower right, on paper: Jacobus Vrelle

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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Published References

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.