This fine room of circa 1820-25 with its lavishly draped bed-alcove is equipped with all the amenities for dressing - note the magnificent cheval glass and toilet table - and female pastimes, such as music, writing and sewing, but the room itself bears all the indications of being in a Royal Palace. On the floor is a magnificent carpet from Real Fabrica de Tapices. The floor is intricately inlaid with coloured marbles, the alcove is flanked by columns supporting a military trophy and standards, the furniture is in the French Empire style and the paintings are Santa Teresa and San Francis in Exctasis, Spanish seventeenth century school. Spanish interior views are very unusual, perhaps on account of the fact that, as Thoephile Gautier remarked in his Voyage en Espagne, undertaken in 1837-8, the great Spanish palaces were mostly bleak and barely furnished with more than the most basic necessities