The door is open. Samuel van Hoogstraten invites us to step into his painting entitled Les Pantoufles, painted between 1654 and 1662 and currently on display at the Louvre in Paris.

This painting depicts a succession of rooms with different floor coverings, punctuated by furniture. It gives us the illusion of a domestic space whose scale and layout are suggested by each of its constituent elements. A way of life emerges: a broom rests against the wall in the foreground, next to which a sheet is hanging. A bunch of keys left in the lock invites us to step through a second doorway. In the background, on the table, we see a crumpled tablecloth, an unlit candle, a book lying open; a chair leaning against the back wall and two frames hanging there. And in the midst of it all: the slippers, left on the doormat.