Fox Hunt (variant)

In the 1850s Navrátil’s perception of the landscape underwent a substantial change. The gay Rococo colours of his earlier pictures were replaced by attenuated brown and green-grey tones, while the realistically rendered details were enhanced by pastose, structered brushwork. The genre picture „Fox Hunt“ belongs to this group of Navrátil’s work - the painter returned several times to this subject, in both oil paintings and gouaches. In the spirit of Biedermeier pictorial stories he made use of the motif of the sly fox.