The painting is undoubtedly an autograph work by the painter Felice Boselli (Piacenza, 1650 – Parma, 1732) and depicts the interior of a butcher's shop. After an initial apprenticeship in Milan in the workshop of Nuvolone, and a brief return to his hometown in 1679, the painter moved permanently to Parma. The influence of Crivelli, known as il Crivellone, encountered during his time in Milan, combined with the examples of Flemish and Neapolitan colleagues, marked his productive path, specializing predominantly in still lifes. The vast quantity of his works in museums and private collections in the Piacenza and Parma areas defines the success he achieved at the time. Our canvas is part of an impressive corpus of works that represented scenes of daily life where the author "photographed" the interior of kitchens or workshops where animals of various kinds, chickens, turkeys, pigs, game, hares, etc., more or less skinned or quartered, were destined for the preparation of succulent lunches. A characteristic of the painter is the pictorial quality, very material and dense, also present in this work, as well as the half-pig that Boselli will cite, inserting the identical figure, in the painting Butcher's Shop: interior of a shop kept at the Museo Civico of Faenza and in The Butcher kept in Sestri Levante at the Museo Rizzi. He will cite it, because our painting, published in the monograph of the painter by F. Arisi, Felice Boselli painter of still life, Rome, 1973, fig. 413, card 327 is placed around 1710 while the other two canvases, also published in the same volume, are dated between 1720 and 1730. Inevitable is the mysterious presence of the cat Felix; signature of the author from the Latin felix, meaning happy, or more simply Boselli's beloved cat. The magnificent painting is in excellent condition, deserving only a light cleaning from the varnish yellowed by time; definitely not suitable for a vegan! Dimensions: canvas 138x104.5 cm - non-coeval frame 157.5x123.5 cm