Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a number of items set on a table.

The work is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[1] The painting is intricately and intimately detailed; not only did Rousseau render a ham (described as "succulent" by one source)[1] and a fully set table, he also included an issue of Le Figaro (a prominent French newspaper) addressed to his home.

The work is highly contemporaneous to the early 1870s.

[1] This Metropolitan Museum of Art article is a stub.