This painting immortalises the circle of Danish Golden Age artists in good company at a tavern in Rome. Thorvaldsen sits as a pater familias at the end of the set table. On his right are the painters Ernst Meyer, Blunck himself in profile and Jørgen Sonne with a tall, grey hat. In the door at that very moment enters Constatin Hansen, and on the other long side of the table Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll – the architect of Thorvaldsens Museum – turns to say something to the waiter about the lobster he has been served. Behind Bindesbøll, Wilhelm Marstrand pokes his head out, and the artist to the waiter’s left, sketching the scene, is Albert Küchler. All the painters in the painting are represented through their works in Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings.