This three-quarter-length portrait of Mariana of Austria slightly later copy of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez's full-length composition (Museo del Prado, Madrid, inv. no. P001191), with minor changes to the position of the sitter's proper right hand. The prime version, painted circa 1652–1653, was completed shortly after Mariana ascended the throne in 1649 at the age of fifteen, following her marriage to her widowed uncle, King Philip IV. The image quickly became the favored portrait of the young queen and was widely circulated through copies. Three full-length copies given to Velázquez and his workshop are known: one in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 6308), a second in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. RF 1941 31) and a third reportedly sent to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, which is now lost. Further versions were produced in the workshop without the intervention of the master, such as the half-length version now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 89.15.18), and innumerable copies were made by other hands.