This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of Spain, which would become part of the Royal Collection. Some of these paintings must have decorated the Queen´s Gallery in the Alcázar (Madrid), a representation space where the Queen launched a decorative and iconographic program of exaltation of her dynasty. Others
Phillip of France, I Duke of Orléan, was the second son of Louis XIII of France and the Spanish Infanta Ana of Austria; born on September 21, 1640; died June 9, 1701, in Saint-Cloud. He was the father of Ma Luisa de Orleans, queen of Spain when she married Carlos II. This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of
Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Baveria, Madame Palatine, second wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and and mother of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of Spain, which would become part of the Royal Collection. Some of these paintings must have decorated the Queen´s