Our painting depicts five joyful girls gathered indoors around a table. The young women,  milliners, are busy adorning ladies' hats with feathers, ribbons, and flowers. Their demeanor is one of carefree gaiety as they work in the atelier, chatting and laughing.

The artist skillfully portrays them in various poses: some seated, some standing, and one seen from behind. On the right side of the composition, ready-made hats can be seen perched on high stands. The dim light coming from the large window on the right contrasts with the warm glow of a lamp illuminating the main scene.

The girls, with their hair neatly tied at the nape, are dressed in late 19th-century fashion, wearing long dark skirts and wide belts accentuating their waists, paired with elegant blouses featuring puffed sleeves fastened around the neck.

Fabio CIPOLLA (Rome 1852 – 1935) was trained in Rome, and soon devoted himself to genre painting. Everyday scenes animated by female figures became the painter's favorite themes throughout the 1870s and 1880s, making him famous in the contemporary art scene. Characterized by a lively and vibrant chromatic imagination and the use of warm and delicate tones, the female figures portrayed in Cipolla's works move with grace and elegance within expertly crafted interior compositions.

During these years, the painter also devoted himself to landscape painting, and from 1875 he is documented as part of the artist colony painting in the countryside of Olevano Romano.

He participated in exhibitions in Milan in 1879 and in Turin in 1880, presenting some orientalist-themed paintings, including the work Arab Costume. In Rome, he exhibited the work The Widow of Naim at the 1883 exhibition, and also took part in the subsequent editions of 1884 and 1886.

In 1902 he participated in the exhibition In arte Libertas. From 1904, he joined the group XXV della Campagna Romana, experimenting with different techniques including oil painting, tempera, and watercolor. In 1911, he exhibited at the International Exhibition in Rome and was among the artists present during these years at the exhibitions of the ‘Amatori e Cultori di Belle Arti’.

He died in Rome in 1935.

The Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Rome preserves two works by the artist: Venetian memories and Country interior.

Among the most significant landscapes by Fabio Cipolla are Winter, Autumn in the City, which are housed in the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.