Carlota Joaquina, Infanta of Spain and Queen of Portugal
Ca. 1825. Oil on canvas.On display elsewhere
Also entitled: Portrait of Doña María Cristina´s mother with a great hairstyle; María Isabella of Spain, Queen of the Two Sicilies (erroneously identified with the Infanta María Isabella of Spain (1789–1848), sister of the portrayed woman). The painter depicts Carlota Joaquina of Spain and house of Bourbon-Parma (Aranjuez, Madrid, 1775–Queluz, Sintra, Portugal, 1830). Infanta of Spain and Queen Consort of Portugal and of the so-called United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. She wears the badge of the Order of the Eagle and Star of Isabella Theresa of Austria, the grand cross and sash of the Order of the Conception of Vila Vicosa and the sashes of the Orders of Maria Luisa and Saint Isabella.