Portrait of the Trip Sisters

Portrait of the Trip Sisters or Portrait of Margarita Trip as Minerva Teaching Her Sister Anna Maria Trip is a 1663 oil on canvas painting by Ferdinand Bol, in the collection of the Rijksmuseum but currently displayed at the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen in Amsterdam. It is signed and dated 'fBol 1663'.
It shows Margarita Trip (1640-1714) and her sister Anna Maria Trip (1652-1681), both daughters of the merchant Louis Trip and his wife Emerentia Hoefslager. Trip also commissioned the imposing Trippenhuis, over two of whose fireplaces this painting and "Portrait of Johanna de Geer and her Children as Charity" originally hung.
It originally hung in the corner room on the first floor of the Trippenhuis's southern wing - Hendrik Trip occupied the north wing The Rijksmuseum was housed in the Trippenhuis from 1816 to 1885 and the main hall was divided into two in 1858 to place Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" and Bartholomeus van der Helst's "Meal of the Schutters" opposite each other., which may have been the occasion when both the chimney-piece works were added to the Rijksmuseum collection.