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Summary

Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff: The Letter  wikidata:Q24062484 reasonator:Q24062484
Artist
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff  (1824–1882)  wikidata:Q2411692
 
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 31 August 1824 Edit this at Wikidata 28 January 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death The Hague Edit this at Wikidata Leiden Edit this at Wikidata
Work period between circa 1839 and circa 1882
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1839-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Antwerp (1845-1848), The Hague (1848-1849), Gouda, Oegsgeest (1856-....), Leiden (1850, 1856), The Hague (1852-....), Noordwijk (1853-1856)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q2411692
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Letter
label QS:Len,"The Letter"
label QS:Lfr,"La lettre"
label QS:Lnl,"De brief"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1873
date QS:P571,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 19 cm (7.4 in); width: 14.6 cm (5.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,19U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,14.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q260913
Accession number
21991
Place of creation Leiden
Object history by 1877
date QS:P,+1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Anton van Herzeele (?)
from 19 November 1877 until 20 November 1877
date QS:P,+1877-11-00T00:00:00Z/10,P580,+1877-11-19T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1877-11-20T00:00:00Z/11
: anonymous sale at M.F. Visconti, City of Brussels (auction house), lot no. 440
by April 1941
date QS:P,+1941-04-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1941-04-00T00:00:00Z/10
: Kunsthandel Huinck & Scherjon, Amsterdam

4 April 1941: purchased by Josephina van Baaren (1890-1959) and Lambertus van Baaren (1888-1964), Utrecht, from Kunsthandel Huinck & Scherjon, Amsterdam

from 1964
date QS:P,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Stichting Van Baaren Museum, Utrecht
1980: lent to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Inventory number 21991, by Stichting Van Baaren Museum, Utrecht
Exhibition history

De Collectie Van Baaren, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 20 May 1976–15 September 1976, p. 5, cat. no.  2.

Een museum is meer..., Centraal Museum, Dépendance Maliebaan 42, Utrecht, 19 June 1981–23 February 1983, no catalogue.

Alles wat aesthetisch boeit. De collecties L.H. en J.F. van Baaren en D. Hannema, Hannema-de Stuers Fundatie, Heino, 19 June 1993–7 November 1993, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 18 September 1993–7 November 1993, ISBN 9070842084, p. 20.

De particuliere kunstcollectie Van Baaren. Van Barbizon en Haagse School tot Charley Toorop en Carel Willink, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1995, no catalogue.

Een gouden greep, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 31 August 1996–17 November 1996, no catalogue.

Over mensen en dieren uit de Van Baaren collectie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 27 May 2011–27 May 2012, no catalogue.

Rietveld en de Van Baarencollectie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 31 March 2012–29 September 2019, no catalogue.
Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom left:

A H Bakker Korff. 73.

Text verso:

Le soussigné déclare que le tableau / représentant "La lettre" est peint par / lui. / Leiden le 18 Août 1873 / AH Bakker Korff
On a piece of paper

Text verso right:

vente de / Appartient / à Anton / [...] Van Herzeele / Avenue Louise / J. Sloot v. O. van / Chev. G. de Stuers.
On a piece of paper stuck on the frame
References

Liesbeth M. Helmus (1999) De verzamelingen van het Centraal Museum Utrecht. 5 Schilderkunst tot 1850, Utrecht: Centraal Museum, ISBN 90-73285-61-5, vol. B, p. 592, cat. no.  17, as De brief.

Centraal Museum online catalogue, as De brief.
Source/Photographer www.centraalmuseum.nl : Home : Info

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