The painting has also been titled as Young Man and Woman in an Inn or Portrait of Pieter Ramp.

The painting shows the face of a smiling woman leaning up against a young cavalier who is holding a flask above his head as if he has just taken it from her, apparently as part of a joke.

The couple stand before a partially open curtain which shows a room beyond with a smiling man carrying a dish and a burning fireplace behind him.

The painting was for a long time considered to be a portrait of a young ensign of the Haarlem schutterij, Pieter Ramp.

This has been rejected however as the female shows a strong resemblance to the young woman portrayed in Hals' Shrovetide Revellers.

Both are considered to be genre works today, so the models could be anyone in Hals circle such as his children or pupils.

In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot noted this painting had a copy in London and wrote:139.