"Maria Luisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias" notebook

18 x 24.5 cm (0.6 cm spine). 40 sheets (80 pages).

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, wearing a lilac gown dotted with green leaves and white flowers and trimmed with lace. The landscape background, set in the gardens of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez with a section of the Tajo River waterfall, reveals the monarchs' preference for that Royal Site. This beautiful composition is captured on the cover of this attractive notebook with a cloth finish.