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In this painting, on a table draped in red cloth, a busy composition shows off music and earthly delights - watermelon, biscuits, wine - under the gaze, as it were, of a clock that materialises the passage of time. The painting could contain an allusion to the five senses, and even Vanity: the clock dominates a composition in which the eye can gaze at appetizing objects, evoking smell and taste, hearing (the violin), touch (with the red material acting as tablecloth), and indeed sight, if we consider the painting as a whole. The artist indulges in the play of forms, of alternating voids and solids, of vanishing perspectives that animate the composition; and books, open or closed, serve as a support for the violin and bow.
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