The lively interior scene where a large group of guests participate in a family-style celebration, in which noblemen and noblewomen show off their fashionable clothes, is part of that kind of representation aimed at capturing moments of current events and at the same time providing a significant cross-section of the society of the time. The originality of the painting is based on a series of well-defined circumstances, many of which are underlined with fine irony, both through the poses of the characters, but above all through an acute analysis of the faces, aimed at capturing the subtle psychological implications of the characters.
Genre scenes Genre painting, which translates into the practice of genre scenes, is a pictorial representation that has as its subject scenes and events taken from everyday life: for example markets, household chores, interiors or parties. Genre painting, representing aspects of everyday life, was long considered a minor genre, decidedly inferior in value to historical-religious painting, but not even on a par with portraiture. The major patrons were not interested in this type of work, usually small in format, which instead had considerable success and diffusion among the bourgeoisie and merchants. The greatest diffusion of this type of painting occurred in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.