The Patient Husband Winding Yarn

The scene’s playful nickname — “Ugh, what a bore”.

The two sit facing each other: the man holds a blue skein of wool stretched across his hands while the woman draws the thread and winds it into a ball. He wears a mustard jacket and hat; she is in a pink flowered dress with a dark red shawl. A basket of finished balls stands at her feet and a straw-covered flask to the right. A yellow mitten lies on the ground between them. A Capodimonte genre group in which the whole scene hangs on the thread drawn between their hands.