Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca
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Maria Luisa of Spain was a Spanish infanta, daughter of King Charles IV and his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1795, she married her first cousin Louis, Hereditary Prince of Parma. She spent the first years of her married life at the Spanish court where their first child, Charles, was born.
Portrait by François-Xavier Fabre
Thirteen-year-old Maria Luisa, portrait by Agustín Esteve, 1795.
The family of Charles IV by Francisco de Goya. Maria Luisa is beside her husband with her son in her arms on the right hand side of the painting.
The Kingdom of Etruria. 1803
Charles IV of Spain
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Charles IV was King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1788 to 1808.
Portrait by Francisco Goya, 1789
The Family of Charles IV
Count de Floridablanca, painting by Goya ca. 1783
Count of Aranda