Girl Holding a Tankard and a Glass

In addition to the paintings by Caravaggio, Terbrugghen was also inspired by Northern imagery from the sixteenth century and by the subject matter and figure style of his contemporary, Dirck van Baburen. The two artists probably shared a studio in Utrecht, and around 1620 both artists produced series of genre scenes with single figures - musicians, singers, smokers and drinkers. These genre scenes were often produced in pairs.

Terbrugghen's figures have often been interpreted as allegories of the Five Senses. The present painting has been seen as interpreting Taste. It was only partly executed by Terbrugghen, the painting was completed by another, inferior hand in his workshop.