Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • painting • previously for sale La Gazette du matin
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
La Gazette du matin
oil on panel 15.0 x 12.6 cm, signed l.r. and dated '68
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. H. Roelofs Heyrmans, Den Haag; veiling Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Den Haag, 9 mei 1902, lotnr. 4; coll. K.K. van Hoffen, Utrecht; coll. Mevrouw S. Stahl-van Hoboken.
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.
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