The artist depicted a very piquant scene. The brownie, bypassing his possessions, froze in amazement in front of the naked body of the sleeping hostess of the house. But the details still tell the viewer that the heroine of the picture has prepared everything for this scene. A hot-heated stove is left open so that the fire gives light.
Pose carefully thought out. There is a feeling that the dream of the hostess is theatrical. The beauty as if herself lures the brownie to look at him. Fairy tale, Christmas story, miracle. A graceful, whitish, dazzling-beautiful merchant’s wife – on the one hand, eerie, covered with wool, a big-bellied brownie – on the other. They are like the embodiment of female and male beauty merchants.
Two different beginnings, opposites. Bright colors, lovingly written out details – all this makes the picture very attractive, talented, a bit hooligan.
Femme de métier et brownie – Kustodiev 
Merchant with a mirror by Boris Kustodiev 
Comerciante y Brownie – Kustodiev 
Tradeswoman for tea by Boris Kustodiev 
A merchant in a fur coat by Kustodiev 
The arrival of a governess in a merchant’s house by Vasily Perov 
Merchant (Old Man with Money) by Boris Kustodiev 
Ball merchant by Boris Kustodiev