Produced in Christiania. Oil on wooden board. Signed and dated 1632. Measures 37 by 48 cm. Rouy Aleander Feline was a weel known fierce criminal, notorious for fraud, burglary, blackmailing, forgery and countless other atrocities of his time. The peak of his criminal career was in 1631, when he took on the State Bank (Norges Statsbank) armed with a knife. his brother Monrad Theo, who was a priest, made numerous attempts to make Rouy Alexander change for a different lifestyle. However nothing could be done to bring him out of his criminal nature and ha was sentenced to death by decapitating. This sentence happend to be conduted at the same time as Felix Fiigenschou was working on a portrait of the poor criminal. Felix, worried about the process of complketeing his artwork, tried hard to make the authorities wait with the execution until after the portrait was finished. However, the date was already set and Rouy lost his cat head before Fiigenschou had closed up the work. Anyway, the creative cat artist Felix had the excellent solution to the problem and sent a letter to the Authorities asked kindly for permission to borrow the head brought to his studio in a tank filled with formalin for a few days. The enquiry was honored with allowance to borrow the head for three week by the head of the forensic department, Franz Zacharias Schalpel.