Joy of Life (La Joie de vivre)[1] is an oil painting by Suzanne Valadon, completed in 1911.

[4] They met through her son, Maurice Utrillo, and Utter modeled nude for several of Valadon's paintings, including Adam and Eve (1909) and Casting the Net (1914).

[4] Joy of Life is based on the theme of "women as nature", a typical subject at the time.

[5] Rosemary Betterton has argued that the figures disrupt the male gaze and are, in fact, being caught in a moment without being sexualized.

[1] According to Mathews, the painting does not offer the "coherent narrative that so clearly dominated masculinist images".