Alfonso XIII, cadet
Ca. 1896. Oil on canvas.On display elsewhere
Alfonso XIII (Madrid, 1886-Rome, 1941), king of Spain between 1886 and 1931. In the background, the Royal Palace of Madrid is identified. He wears a uniform made up of a blue tunic jacket, with a row of seven golden buttons, round neck of the same color with on each side a golden bugle with crown in whose center it has a Y, distinctive of the Infantry Academy; three sardinettes of gold bun in the sleeves and a triangular-shaped shoulder pad of the same cloth with the figure A XIII with royal crown, all in gold. The whole garment and the front pockets are trimmed with a black ribbon. Straight pants of maroon cloth with blue stripes on the sides. Black shoes. Cadet saber of the General Military Academy model 1883. In the right hand he holds a white felt ros with the imperial and stripe at the bottom, as well as the visor and chinstrap of black patent leather with a golden metal bulb with a green strawberry tree, typical of the Infantry hunters, like the aforementioned sardinets. The insignia of the Golden Fleece is on the collar, pendant with a red ribbon (Proyecto catalogación elementos heráldicos y falerísticos, Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía).
