Hip, Hip, Hurrah! scene (and in composition and subject draws obvious comparisons to Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"), but at the same time it harks back to the "freundschaftbild" tradition of artists of the Danish Golden Age such as Ditlev Blunck and Wilhelm Bendz in depicting artistic communities spontaneously drawing together. The development of Krøyer's Skagen style can be seen by comparing "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!" with ("Artists' Luncheon at Skagen"), a similarly themed 1883 painting which features many of the same people; and with later works like "" ("Summer Evening at Skagen beach. The Artist and his Wife") and "Roser" ("Roses"). The
Luncheon in the Studio saying to us: Look at me!... Thus, no expression, no feeling, no composition." He spoke of "types without character, scenes devoid of all interest" and said disparagingly (yet insightfully from the point of view of modern criticism) that "Manet had made the portrait of a "Balcony" and a "Luncheon"". Meyers finds the depiction of Leenhoff similar in some respects to an 1855 portrait by Edgar Degas of his brother, "Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet". They share the leaning pose, the presence of swords, and facial characteristics. He further suggests that, by borrowing from the Degas work,