Nita Wallenberg

Ebba Maria Sassnitza Wallenberg, (11 April 1896 - 4 October 1966) was a Swedish artist known for her romance with Nils von Dardel and as the main motive of several pictures which Dardel painted during the period 1917–1920.

[4] The broken engagement heavily affected Dardel's painting and resulted in several pictures of womanly figures that resemble Nita.

[5] "Nita" Wallenberg appears in some of Dardel's work, including Yngling i svart, Flicka i vitt from 1919, Vattenfallet from 1921, and Ynglingen och flickan from 1919.

[5] Two of his best-known paintings, Visit hos excentrisk dam and Crime Passionnel, have her as a quintessential point figure.

[5] In the oil painting Exekution, from 1919, Nita's father appears as a hardened executioner who kicks a young man over a steep hill.