Seventeen peasants are grouped outdoors around a table with an empty stool and half-barrel seat, possibly in the garden of an ale-house, whose ramshackle barn is seen in the left background. While most of the figures are standing, five are seated. From left to right are a couple in late middle age who are drinking ale, the man with his left hand on her knee; an older couple (the man has a flowing beard), the woman holding what looks like a sheathed knife (for cutting what may be a ham before her on the table, though this might also be a wineskin); and a younger man in a plumed cap, playing a flute.