HUGO BIRGER (1854-1887). "Sten Sture frigifver den danska drottningen ur fångenskap i Wadstena".

Oil on canvas, 137 x 193 cm, including frame 170 x 210 cm. Signed H. Birger. Executed in 1876. The current catalogue number was the prize subject of the Academy of Fine Arts 1876 and other famous participants in the same year were Ernst Josephson and Carl Larsson. PROVENANCE Private Collection, Stockholm. LITERATURE Emil Hultmark, Kungl. Akademiens för de fria konsterna utställningar 1794-1887, Stockholm 1935, p. 560 under the Akademiens Tävlingsämnen. Sixten Strömbom, Hugo Birger, 1947, two preliminary studies to the current catalogue number listed in the catalogue p. 308, No. 33 and 34.