Sorolla y Bastida portrays María Cristina wearing full court dress based on an evening dress with a scoop neckline and cap sleeves. Sorolla y Bastida painted a similar portrait of Maria Cristina standing with Alfonso XIII now at the Foreign Ministry offices in Madrid.
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