A painter and art critic, he was tied to the modernist movement in its English Pre-Raphaelite-inspired symbolist aspect, at the service of sentimental art. In this female representation, prominent are the flesh tones of the two young women, exalted and flushed by the celebration of the masquerade ball, filling the pictorial scene with an atmosphere of fantasy. He created many idealised paintings of the heads of young women and girls. His portraits of female faces against green backgrounds, as in this festive genre painting, are unconventional. His execution is free and direct, conveying a sensuality that is nevertheless enveloped in an air of mystery and interrogation, without offering narrative references or details beyond the faces. Brull was an idealist painter who, despite maintaining contact with real life, sought the concretion of the immaterial world among hidden veils and dreams.