Zvolení Jiříka z Poděbrad za krále českého.

This 1898 canvas depicting the election of Jiří z Poděbrad as Czech king — hung in Prague's Old Town Hall — is Brožík's finished monumental version of the historical event he had studied in the 1897 preparatory work also in the National Gallery Prague. The Old Town Hall placement is significant: this was not a private commission or museum acquisition but a work installed in the civic heart of Prague, the building where the Czech city's administration had operated since the fourteenth century. Jiří z Poděbrad's election in 1458 as the first and only native Czech king of the Hussite era made him the central symbol of Czech political self-determination, and Brožík's large canvas functioned as a visual constitution for Czech civic pride. The comparison with Jan Matejko's Polish historical canvases in Warsaw and Krakow is inevitable — both painters created history paintings that their nations understood as visual monuments to historical identity.

Oil on canvas at monumental scale, with the complex multi-figure compositional organization that Brožík developed through his study of history painting. The election scene requires simultaneous presentation of the elected king, the electing nobility, the ceremonial space, and the emotional weight of a historically decisive moment. Light focuses on the central figures while the surrounding group provides the social and political context.