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Vrel's works are sometimes confused with those by Esaias
Boursse or Pieter de Hooch. Vrel painted without glazes. He often painted his signature on a strip of paper or cloth in his painting, reminiscent of European medieval banners or scrolls. At least half of the pictures by Vrel contain signatures
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Despite the many architectural elements, bread products or clothing of the figures in his paintings, art historians are unable to assign most of Vrel's street scenes to any particular city or region. Vrel is thought to have composed them mostly from imagination. As of 2021, two experts have
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A retrospective exhibition curated by Berndt Ebert of the Alte
Pinakothek was to open in late 2020, combined printed exhibition catalog and catalogue raisonné by Ebert, Cécile Tainturier and Quentin Buvelot.in 2021. Because of the
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n painter of interiors and urban street scenes during the
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