[2][3] It and de Troy's The Oyster Dinner were commissioned by Louis XV to decorate the dining room of the lesser apartments at the Palace of Versailles.

This painting was commissioned in 1734 by King Louis XV from the painter Lancret, for the dining room of the small apartments at the Palace of Versailles, who produced it the following year.

According to Jules Guiffrey, it was Philippe d'Orléans, known as le Gros, feasting within the Society of Cotton Bonnets.

But apart from the fact that this identification is impossible because of the late date of the painting, art historians today doubt that it could represent characters who really existed.

Indeed, the Société des Bonnets de coton was founded in 1760 while Lancret died in 1743 and the Chantilly painting is dated 1735.