LUIS DE LA CRUZ Y RIOS, CALLED EL CANARIO, signed and dated 1835 and 1836

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LUIS DE LA CRUZ Y RIOS, CALLED EL CANARIO, signed and dated 1835 and 1836

Isabella II, Queen of Spain, as a girl, and the Queen Mother Maria-Christina of Spain; the girl holding a bouquet of flowers in her white silk dress and standing next to a red velvet cushion with the Royal crown and sceptre; mauve drapery with gold tassels, a column and a landscape in the background; the young Queen decorated with the sash of the Royal Spanish Order of Maria-Luisa; her mother seated on a red-upholstered gilt-wood chair against a column and green drapery background, her brown hair tied up to a plaited bun, wearing a low-cut violet dress with white lace border and long puff-sleeves, decorated with the badge of the Starry Cross Order, the sash of the Royal Spanish Order of Maria-Luisa, and the breast-star and sash of the Imperial Russian Order of Saint-Catherine; both rectangular -- 156 x 122 and 157 x 113 mm, the Queen Mother damaged, gilt-metal mounts. (2)

Literature

Mariano Tomás, La miniatura retrato en España, Spain, 1953, ill. colour pl. LXXXI.

Lot Essay

Maria-Christina of Bourbon (1806-1878), daughter of King Francis I of the Two-Sicilies, became the fourth wife of King Ferdinand VII of Spain (see lot 369), in 1829. Three months after the death of her husband in 1833, she remarried to Juan-Ferdinand Muñoz, later Duke of Rianzares. Until 1840, she was the Regent of Spain. From her marriage to the King, she had two daughters, Maria-Luisa, the future Duchess of Montpensier, and Isabella II. Isabella (1830-1904) succeeded her father to the throne in 1833 and was declared major in 1843. She married her first cousin Don Francis of Assisi (see lots 368 and 370) in 1846. Deposited in 1868, she abdicated in 1870 in favour of her son Don Alfonso XII.

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