A portrait of King Carlos III (1716-1788) shortly before his death. The composition, which shows the Monarch dressed for hunting in the mountains outside Madrid, recalls Diego Velasquez's different portraits of King Felipe IV and the infantes in hunting garb, which are also in the Prado Museum. Goya made etchings of those works in 1788.

This painting is a copy of the original in the collection of the Duchess of Fernán Núñez. Other copies of lesser quality are also known, including those in the Argentaria Collection (Madrid), at the Madrid City Hall, and in the collection of Lord Margadale (United Kingdom).

This work entered the Prado Museum collection in 1847.