Portrait of Princess Maria Christina is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c. 1790 by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. It was commissioned by Maria Christina's parents Maria Carolina of Austria and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. Vigée Le Brun had taken refuge in Naples after fleeing Paris in 1789 during the French Revolution.
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The portrait is now in the National Museum of Capodimonte, in Naples.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ "Ritratto della principessa Maria Cristina — Museo di Capodimonte". 2015-01-20. Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
- ^ Spinosa, Nicola; Utili, Mariella; Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte (Neapel) (2004). Museo di Capodimonte (in Italian). Milano: Touring Editore. p. 220. ISBN 8836525776. OCLC 886421704.