Partridge Hunt

Partridge Hunt

1887

Watercolour and gouache on paper

Mått 50,00 x 34,20 cm (dagermått) Ram 72,00 x 57,50 x 2,50 cm

GKM 2013-66

Bequest of Gustaf Werner (1859–1948) to the City of Gothenburg. Transferred to the Gothenburg Museum of Art in 2013.

Art history contains a rich panorama of hunting scenes. Dramatic encounters between animal and human being have been depicted ever since predators and humans looked for prey among the clump of reeds on the Nile. The motif obviously appealed to Gustaf Werner who owned a substantial number of paintings with hunting scenes. Bruno Liljefors, who killed his first fox in 1877, was a passionate hunter and painted many versions of the hunt; here a hunter with his dog during a grey partridge hunt.

Göteborg, Göteborgs konstmuseum, 07/09/2013 - 17/11/2013