Peter Paul Rubens celebrated his marriage to Isabella Brant with this double portrait. The couples are seated in a bower of honeysuckle, a plant frequently associated with marital love and emotional constancy. Their hands are joined, indicating that the marriage ceremony has already taken place.

The Belgian Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens is considered the most important artist of 17th century Europe, whose style became an international definition of the animated, exuberantly sensuous aspects of Baroque painting.