(1631) Leyster was a female artist whose entire body of work was once attributed to Frans Hals. The painting's two subjects are a woman sewing by candlelight and a man touching her right shoulder and offering her coins. Unlike in Vermeer's The Milkmaid, the foot warmer in this painting is part way under the woman's skirt, indicating that she is married, but potentially interested in a suitor. Despite this, the woman appears to be ignoring the man's romantic advances.