The poultry and game seller with spectacles

The poultry and game seller with spectacles depicts a scene from the everyday life of a miserable, patched humanity, which, however, is not intended to move the spectators, but rather to arouse sympathy and hilarity in them.

According to art historian Roberto Longhi, the painter's style is akin to that of Eberhard Keil, a Danish artist from whom Cipper also inherited the themes, enriched, however, by the typical freshness of Velázquez.

The painting is chosen by Hackert, together with three other works by Giacomo Francesco Cipper, to decorate the Game Room, the room used by the king and his gentlemen for games and entertainment.

The selection not only constitutes a tribute to the queen – Austrian like Cipper – but also testifies to the painter's value, which undisputed and widely recognized at the time.