Focus on this artwork and discuss the History.
This was the first of five paintings that Velázquez made of the Infanta Margaret Teresa of Austria, although at first it was  believed that it was a portraits was her half-sister, the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain.
This painting was offered by her father, Philip IV of Spain, to the Viennese court so that her fiancé Leopold I of Habsburg could know how she looked like.
Another version with variants, where the infanta seems somewhat older and her hair looks longer, is kept in the Palacio de Liria in Madrid (Casa de Alba Collection). Traditionally assumed to be an authentic work of Velázquez, it is now believed to have been painted by an assistant.
Philip IV of Spain Maria Theresa of Spain Leopold I of Habsburg