Flemish School - Band of musicians

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones.

The painting displays a typically popular taste for genre scenes; the fragment of daily life is depicted without any filter of idealization or interpretation. A realism that meticulously depicts every detail, drawing attention to the quotidian nature of the scene, and unafraid to depict features with a strongly popular character, even unpleasant and caricatural. To help heighten the subject's spontaneity and immediacy, the painter uses a very cursive style, demonstrating a rather modern conception of pictorial technique. What emerges, therefore, is a predominantly miniaturist character, precisely because of the desire to depict the genre scene with a wealth of detail. The light does nothing to impede this process and is expertly managed, leaving the scene on the left in dim light and gradually increasing in intensity towards the right.

The work displays such a candid realism in the execution of the genre scene and in the pictorial style that it almost approaches a modern conception of painting. The work, therefore, can be dated between the late 18th and early 19th centuries precisely because of its aspiration to a yet-unfulfilled 19th-century realism. Judging by the fascination with authentic, folksy representation and the attention to detail, the execution of the work must certainly be attributed to a Flemish master.

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