An interior with an elegant company making merry

Britta Nehlsen-Marten mentions a panel of the same size, also dated 1640, which might have belonged to a same series of interiors as the present picture (see: B. Nehlsen-Marten, Dirck Hals 1591-1656: Oeuvre und Entwicklung eines Haarlemmer Genremalers, Weimar, 2003, p. 299, no. 269).