In 1885, he demonstrated his virtuoso skills in what he described as ‘five studies in a single painting’. A Cat with a Young Bird in its Mouth, and A Cat and a Chaffinch were assembled from observations of living and dead animals and birds, and sketches, to produce composites which photography could not challenge for decades, even in monochrome. [https://eclecticlight.co/2018/03/03/no-greater-naturalist-paintings-of-bruno-liljefors-1/]