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Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
Les Antiquités, oil on panel 14,1 x 12,1 cm., signed l.r. and dated '72

Annotatie: met verso gedateerde authenticiteitsverklaring van de schilder op verzegeld etiket: 'Le soussigné déclare que ce tableau représentant "Les Antiquités"est peint par lui, Leide (?) 4 avril 1872, Bakker Korff'.
Provenance: Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen, 1972.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen, 'Zomertentoonstelling Romantische en Haagse School', 1972, pag. 5, cat.nr. 4 (met afb. op pag 4, als 'De dienstmaagd'); G.H. Marius, 'Dutch Painters of the 19th Century', Woodbridge 1988, afb. pag. 113.

Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff lived and worked in The Hague. At first he depicted historical and biblical scenes, but around 1859 began drawing and painting small-scale genre works in an extremely precise style. These were mainly domestic scenes with old spinsters, for which his two unmarried sisters stood model. His paintings have a humorous, sometimes ironic, undertone, which their carefully chosen titles bring out. Among his pupils was J.H. van Rossum du Chattel.