Osteria with a pipe smoker - Sébastien Bourdon

The scene is on the front of an inn (osteria) with a pergola, set up on the right near the Sestius pyramid. In the right foreground, seated next to a traveling trunk on which two cuirasses are leaning, an old soldier drinks, while his young companion, wearing a large white feathered felt hat, seated opposite him on a trunk, smokes a pipe. Behind them in the background, at the inn door, a soldier is annoying a servant. Further left, another soldier watches over the horses. On the left-hand side of the painting, sheltered in the corner of an old wall, a family of gypsies is preparing to eat soup cooking in a pot.

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