A game of croquet.

A Game of Croquet, painted in 1892, captures an outdoor leisure scene that places Wyczółkowski in dialogue with the French Impressionist tradition of depicting bourgeois recreation in garden settings. By the 1890s, croquet had become a fashionable pastime among the Polish educated classes, and the subject allowed painters to combine figures in motion, outdoor light, and the decorative qualities of period dress. Wyczółkowski's treatment of the subject brings together his naturalist training with an awareness of the lighter palette and broken brushwork being developed by his French contemporaries. The work represents the social dimension of his output, contrasting with the labour subjects that would define his later reputation. It is held in the National Museum in Warsaw.

The outdoor setting demands a bright, high-keyed palette to capture natural light falling across the figures and lawn. Wyczółkowski renders the figures with loose, confident brushwork, capturing the momentary quality of play without sacrificing compositional structure.