Lot Essay
Archduchess Maria-Theresia of Habsburg (1717-1780), daughter of Emperor Karl VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel, married Duke Franz Stephan of Lorraine in 1736. She became Queen of Hungary in 1741 and Holy Roman Empress in 1745. For a miniature of her 16th and youngest child, Archduke Maximilian, see lot 85.