Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Later Queen of Spain

Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Later Queen of Spain

Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Later Queen of Spain
Artist:Laurent Pécheux (French, Lyons 1729–1821 Turin)
Date:1765
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:90 7/8 x 64 3/4 in. (230.8 x 164.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926
Accession Number:26.260.9
Although born in France, Pécheux was called to Parma, Italy, in 1765 to paint a portrait of Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma for the family of her fiancé, the Prince of Asturias, later Charles IV of Spain. Maria Luisa, granddaughter of both Philip V of Spain and Louis XV of France, wears the decoration of the Hapsburg order of the Croix-Étoilée pinned to her dress and holds a snuffbox with a miniature of her future husband in her right hand. The impressive chair is part of a suite thought ordered in Paris, an example of which is in the museum’s collection (07.225.57). The painting served as a source for other portraits of the princess by Anton Raphael Mengs and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.

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