Although born in France, Pécheux was called to Parma, Italy, in 1765 to paint a portrait of Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma for the family of her fiancé, the Prince of Asturias, later Charles IV of Spain. Maria
Luisa, granddaughter of both Philip V of Spain and Louis XV of France, wears the decoration of the Habsburg order of the Croix-Étoilée pinned to her dress and holds a snuffbox with a miniature of her future husband
in her right hand. The impressive chair is part of a suite thought ordered in Paris, an example of which is in the museum’s collection (07.225.57). The painting served as a source for other portraits of the princess
by Anton Raphael Mengs and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.
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