# Two Ladies Examining a Little Painting

- By: Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff (The Hague, 1824–1882)
- Date: 1866
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: depth 8.3 cm
- Credit line: V.R. van Poelgeest-Spatkowa Bequest, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4694--cfef17b69db6646d53b48a5722440743)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/2eda72863420c27bfc1ff1da883667b8.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.