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If I zoom in on the painting, it looks like she is eating a salad, as are her tablemates.
I think it’s kind of a reach to go all the way to “eating ortolan in Rome” based on the head scarf, regardless of how it’s placed.
We could just as safely assume she is doing what this thread says, putting it on her head to “cover herself from the observer” because she’s eating a salad.