The Happy Couple

Carousing Couple, also known as The Happy Couple, is a genre painting by Judith Leyster, a Dutch painter active in the 17th century. Leyster was one of the few female artists of her time to gain recognition. Her work often featured portraits, genre scenes, and still lifes, and she was known for her innovative use of light sources, as seen in paintings like The Proposition. Carousing Couple is among her best-known works, painted between 1629 and 1635. Many of Leyster's paintings were historically misattributed to her male contemporaries.1