"Maria Luisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias" pen

Blue ink.

With the delicacy and elegance characteristic of portraits from the Ancien Régime, Mengs paints Maria Luisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias (1766). She is dressed in court attire, and in the detail reproduced on this beautiful pen, we can see her left wrist, which is adorned with a four-strand pearl bracelet with a visible miniature, and how she carries an exquisite fan that matches her dress, a gift from her husband on the occasion of their recent marriage.