Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • painting • previously for sale Les poissons Chinois
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
Les poissons Chinois
oil on panel 14.9 x 12.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '79
This painting was previously for sale.
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.
Exhibited: 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; Den Haag, Museum Mesdag, 'Binnen is het warm en gezellig. Schilderijen van burgerlijke interieurs 1800-1940', 17 dec. 2004-13 maart 2005.
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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