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Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
Les poissons Chinois, oil on panel 14,9 x 12 cm., signed l.r. and dated '79

Annotatie: Verso op verzegeld etiket: gedateerde authenticiteitsverklaring van de schilder ('Le soussigné déclare que ce tableau représentant "les poissons Chinois" est peint par lui, Leyde le 10 Août 1879, A.H. Bakker Korff').
Provenance: mr. H.M.A. Coebergh, Leiden, 1924; part. bezit Groot-Brittannië.
Literature: tent.cat. Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, 'Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen door A.H. Bakker Korff ter herdenking van den geboortedag van den meester', 31 aug.-21 sept. 1924, cat.nr. 42.

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.