Text from the exhibition curator: In the art of the Low Countries, the genre scene depicts the every day life through the inventiveness of the artists aware of the great variety of behaviors and customs of a world meant to be represented direct, in a natural fashion, without social prejudice an often with humor. Of lesser dimensions, displaying a decorative porpoise, the works of genre scenes, as those presented in the exhibition, consecrated a tradition that reached to be adopted by the entire world of European Art.