Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Lecture du matin
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
Lecture du matin
pencil, pen and ink on paper 21.8 x 17.8 cm, signed l.r. with initials
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: J. den Hartogh, Zeist; coll. H. van Leeuwen, Amsterdam.
Exhibited: Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Tekeningen uit drie eeuwen, april-juni 1978, no. 5
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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