Hals’s Banquet in the Country is a portrait of an aristocratic or merchant family dining alfresco in the garden of their estate. It’s meant to display social importance, status, and wealth. This picnicking subject was one of many Hals painted.
See Dirck Hals. Banquet in the Country, or Nachfolge. Fröhliches Bankett im Freien (1620 c.), oil on canvas. Musée du Louvre, Paris; http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=13785&langue=en