Gonzalo Bilbao, disciple of Villegas in Rome, soon acquired an excellent mastery of drawing, color and lighting resources. He achieved success and fame, especially with andalusian themes and to a lesser extent, landscapes and portraits. Sentimental, sometimes he decompensation his work, as in this that can be framed within social character painting. It presents, denouncing hurtful inequalities, everyday scene of a pawnshop any, with characters absorbed in their misery, and in a space that is even more distressing for her nakedness.