Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • painting • previously for sale Maternity visit
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
Maternity visit
oil on panel 14.5 x 19.0 cm, signed l.l. and dated '68
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: veiling Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 3 nov. 1959, lotnr. 14 (met afb.); Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer, Amsterdam, inv.nr. 4608; Kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman, Den Haag, 1993.
Literature: Nelly de Zwaan, 'Nederland uit de kunst: 365 dagen kijken en lezen', Warnsveld 2005, 16 jan. (met afb. in kleur).
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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