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The sitter, daughter of Philip V, married Victor Amadeus III of Savoy in 1750. The carnation symbolises their marriage, as do the fragrant roses and jasmines given to her by Zephyr, the gentle spring wind with butterfly wings. Cupid, the god of love, meanwhile offers her some yellow daffodils, another symbol of spring, which are echoed by the pattern on her dress.
During Christ’s ascent to Calvary, a woman known as la hemorroísa (literally, the menstruating woman), offered him a white cloth, which absorbed the image of his bloodstained face. This miraculous image and the woman involved came to be known as The Veronica. Here, Amigoni, an outstanding Venetian rococo painter who arrived in Spain in 1748, presents the sacred cloth alongside various putti
Dibujo en el que se representa a la izquierda, en pie y ante un fondo de paisaje, a Diana; a la derecha, sentadas junto al río y rodeando a Calisto, varias ninfas. Es apunte seguro de mano de Amiconi, semejante por su estilo y por los modelos de las figuras a otros dibujos de este tipo del artista. Un dibujo más terminado, también a pluma, de una composición semejante se encuentra en el Kupferstic
