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Two Ladies Examining a Little Painting
Also titled Twee dames bij het bekijken van een schilderijtje
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff (The Hague, 1824–1882)
1866
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- V.R. van Poelgeest-Spatkowa Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This meticulously painted scene of old maids in a humorous situation is typical of Bakker Korff. The viewer’s imagination is pricked. Are the two women actually examining a work of art, or are they coming to the realization while looking at their reflection in a mirror that they are no longer as pretty as a picture? Given the stuffy interior in which the ladies sit, the latter seems more likely.
