Provenance
Frits Lugt [1884-1970], Maartensdijk, before 1929.[1] M. van Leeuwen-Boomkamp, Oud-Bussum, near Hilversum, by 1935;[2] P. van Leeuwen-Boomkamp, Oud-Bussum, near Hilversum, by 1955;[3] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1971, no. 45); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles;[4] deaccessioned 2007 by the Getty Museum; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2007, no. 7); June deH. [Mrs. Henry H.] Weldon, New York; gift 2012 to NGA.
[1] Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "Pieter de Hooch: des meisters gemälde in 180 abbildungen mit einem anhang über di genremaler um Pieter de Hooch und die kunst Hendrik van der Burchs." _Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben_ 35 (1929): xxxiii (also 1930 English ed., translated by Alice M. Sharkey and E. Schwandt, London and New York).
[2] Clotilde Brière-Misme. "Un 'Intimiste' hollandaise: Jacob Vrel." _Revue de l'art ancien et moderne_ 68, no. 365 (November 1935): 160, 162.
[3] This owner lent the painting to an exhibition in Rotterdam in 1955.
[4] The painting was accession number 71.PB.61 in the Getty's collection.
Accession Number
2012.106.1
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
overall: 55.7 × 41.3 cm (21 15/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of June deH. and Henry H. Weldon
Tags
Painting Baroque (1600–1750) Oil Painting Panel Painting Dutch
Background & Context
Background Story
Jacobus Vrel (active c. 1654-62) was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his quiet domestic interiors that anticipate the work of Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch by a decade. Young Woman in an Interior from c. 1660 depicts a woman in a domestic interior in the quiet, atmospheric manner that distinguishes Vrel's work from the more detailed genre painting of his contemporaries. The c. 1660 date places this in the same period as Vermeer's earliest domestic interiors, and Vrel's quiet, atmospheric treatment anticipates the effects of light and space that Vermeer would develop in the following decade.
Cultural Impact
Young Woman in an Interior is important in the history of Dutch genre painting because it anticipates the domestic interior manner that Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch would develop in the following decade. Vrel's quiet, atmospheric interiors show that the domestic interior manner was being developed independently of Vermeer, and the c. 1660 painting demonstrates that the effects of light and space that Vermeer would perfect were already being explored by other Dutch painters.
Why It Matters
Young Woman in an Interior is Vrel anticipating Vermeer: a woman in a domestic interior rendered in the quiet, atmospheric manner that anticipates the effects of light and space that Vermeer would develop in the following decade. The c. 1660 painting shows the domestic interior manner being explored independently of Vermeer.
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