Why it matters
Goya portrayed María Teresa de Borbón, who had been encouraged by Queen Maria Luisa to make a marriage of convenience with the prime minister Manuel de Godoy. She is not the Countess of Chinchón after whom the cinchona tree is named.
Did you know?
- It was painted around 1800.
- She was born in 1780.
- Her father, Infante Louis Antoni of Bourbon, was expelled from court by his brother Charles III.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Countess of Chinchon (CC BY-SA 4.0).
