Mariana of Austria, Queen Consort between 1665 and 1675, talks to the Jesuit priest Nithard, her confessor and confidant, in the presence of her son Charles II, still a minor. The scene takes place in a room in the Buen Retiro Palace –on the left we see a Hieronymite monk– decorated by the painter with works related to Velazquez and King Philip IV: Las Meninas, the equestrian portraits of Philip III and his wife from the Hall of Kingdoms of the Buen Retiro, the portraits of the hunters of Torre de la Parada, mirrors with eagles of the Alcázar (Text drawn from cat. exp. Los Objetos Hablan, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2016, p. 48).