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Lot description
La marchande de bric-…-brac signed and dated 'A.H.Bakker Korff.67.' (lower left), authenticated, inscribed with title and dated again 'Leiden 24 nov 1867' on a label and with the artist's seal on the reverse oil on panel 19 x 14.5 cm. PROVENANCE (Probably) directly acquired from the artist by Jhr. H.A. Steengracht van Duivenvoorde, The Hague, before 1869; Sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 20 June 1913, lot 362. Mr J.G. Wurfbain, Rheden, 1924. Anon. Sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 7 November 1989, lot 324, ill. LITERATURE Mr J. Slagter, Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff (1824-1882), in Elseviers Geillustreerd Maandschrift, LXVIII, 1924, ill. p. 25. EXHIBITION Brussels, Exposition Generale des Beaux-Arts, 12 July-28 September 1869, no. 35. Delft, Museum het Prinsenhof, De Romantische School, 1955-1956, no. 5, ill. Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Bakker Korff, 1958, no. 18. NOTES Bakker Korff was a great collector of antique furniture and objects, which he used in his work. The old woman is sitting on a Dutch or German fauteuil, dating back to the first half of the 18th century. In the setting he has created, he has made use of a Dutch Louis XVI style mahogany demi-lune side table with tambour shutters and a Louis XIV style torchere. Most of the ceramics is European in origin. Another version of the present composition was offered in these Rooms on 26 September 2001, lot 505. As these two versions are so similar (only slight differences in the signature and in some of the objects can be detected), the provenances of both paintings have been cause for confusion from the early 20th century onwards.