Active in Milan as a genre painter, the artist specializes in the representation of animals, particularly farm animals, and hunting scenes, both topics highly prized by Italian collectors of the time. Obviously inspired by the Flemish “animalist” painters and Italian artists like Giovanni Agostino Cassana, Crivellone literally puts nature in motion, with an able descriptive vein and a balanced command of color and light clearly deriving from Nordic tradition. It is likely the decision to represent domesticated living animals is prompted by the possibility to imbue them with symbolic value. In this case, the pair of turkeys, so prolific, clearly alludes to the virtue of conjugal fidelity and to fertility, while the cock is an image of firmness and authority. The field being worked and the barnyard pen constitute the representation of a human microcosm, where situations referring to the most varied of human behaviors find space to interact. Paintings of this type may have been commissioned as wedding gifts.