Fox Hunt in Winter Landscape

Fox Hunt in Winter Landscape

1911

Oil on canvas

Mått 70,00 x 103,00 cm Ram 84,00 x 117,00 x 3,50 cm

GKM 2013-83

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

Bruno Liljefors was fascinated by the fox in its capacity of an intelligent and agile predator. In Kvarnbo outside Uppsala, where the artist had his studio in the 1880s, he collected a menagerie of wild animals. Some were kept in cages while others roamed about freely. Liljefors thus kept the models for his paintings in his own zoo which included owls, wood grouse, grey partridges, pine martens, foxes and dabbling ducks. In this painting, however, the fox is the hunted one.

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