The painting is identified as a double portrait of Johan Cornelis Vijgeboom (died 1665), a wealthy Dordrecht grocer and his wife Anneken Joosten Boogaert. It depicts Vijgeboom handing his wife, Anneken Joosten Boogaert a tulip in the garden of their manor house near Dubbeldam (the vicinity of Dordrecht).
The painting is signed and dated left centre: S. v. Hooghstraten 1647.
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