# Archduke Ferdinand and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MENGS, Anton Raphael]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 147 x 96 cm ## Commentary The two children portrayed here were the children of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold of Habsburg - who became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1790 - and Maria Luisa of Bourbon, daughter of Charles III. This commission might have come from the Spanish monarch, who wanted a portrait of his grandchildren, painted in Florence in 1770. Ferdinand \(1769-1824\), standing, is playing with the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece on his chest, showing it to the viewer, while his sister \(1770-1809\), sitting on a chair-throne, is holding an ivory ring in her right hand. ## Related artworks - [Charles IV as Prince]() - [Double portrait]() - [Ecce Homo]() - [Ferdinand IV, King of Naples]() - [Glory of St Eusebius]() - [Judgment of Paris]() - [Jupiter and Ganymede]() - [Maria Luisa of Parma]() - [Maria Luisa of Parma]() - [Perseus and Andromeda \(detail\)]() - [Perseus and Andromeda]() - [Portrait of Clement XIII Rezzonico]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()