Eagles attacking Hare
Signed Bruno Liljefors and dated 1911. Oil on canvas 92 x 152 cm.
Gustaf (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955); subsequently by descent.
Allan Ellenius, "Bruno Liljefors. Naturen som livsrum", 1996, compare different version of the motif, depicted p. 74.
Gösta Nobel was the son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel and also nephew of Alfred Nobel. The painting originally hung in the dining room of the Nobel family house situated at Sampsonievsky Quay 19 in St. Petersburg.