The artist himself holds his hat in his hand and is listening to his patron as the archduke gestures with his cane towards some recent acquisitions.

The paintings are arranged in rows on a rear wall, with several others on the side of the vestibule on the left, and a set that are positioned in the foreground leaning against chairs for inspection.

This painting is a copy by the artist and one of the first that David Teniers the Younger prepared to document the Archduke's collection before he employed 12 engravers to publish his Theatrum Pictorium, considered the "first illustrated art catalog".

[2] The original version of this painting, with the figures arranged differently, is in the collection of Petworth House, south of London.

That version, which includes a portrait of Bishop Antonius Triest (1576-1657), served as the basis for this copy, though they are about the same size and were possibly both made at the same time in tandem.