Mariana Waldstein, Ninth Marquesa de Santa Cruz
by GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de, Oil on canvas, 142 x 97 cm
Mariana Waldstein (1763-1808), Marquesa de Santa Cruz, a native Austrian, was one of the most prominent women in late eighteenth-century Spain. By her marriage she was the Duchess d’Alba’s aunt and an intimate of Lucien Bonaparte.