The
paint is applied here with thin, overlapping brushstrokes and the artist has
favoured the use of clean colours. The
canvas probably belonged to a series of several works, together with Farmyard Animals: Cockerel, Two Hens and
Seven Chicks, also exhibited in the Pinacoteca del Castello.
Here, the artist contrasts the two animals - the cat and the
fox – from Flemish models, in particular from the painter Jan Fyt.