ca. 1765 Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria by ? (Schloß Schönbrunn - Wien, Austria)

Upgrade image posted 27 April 2015 from Wikimedia; spots throughout image and flaws in background removed with Photoshop and size fixed 15 cm high at 118.11 pixels/cm.

ca. 1765 Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria by ? (Schloß Schönbrunn - Wien, Austria) Wm size fixed 15 cm high at 118.11 pixels:cm despot deflaw

Archduchess Maria Christina's open robe is lavishly decorated with lace, bows, and diamonds. She wears a corsage of jewels on the right side of her bodice and a series of diamond ornaments down the center of her bodice. The revers are just bands - of jewels. The bows on her sleeves and bodice have jeweled centers. An order with a crucifix in it is located below her jewel corsage, almost lost. She wears other impressive diamonds in and below her choker bow and suspended from her girandole earrings. Diamonds in her hair finish off her magnificent presentation.

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