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Maria Theresia und Franz Stephan

Maria Theresia von Österreich und ihr Mann Kaiser Franz I. Stephan von Lothringen

 

Maria Theresa of Austria and her husband Emperor Francis I Stephen of Lorraine

 

Two pastel paintings by Jean Étienne Liotard (1762)

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At the time these paintings were created, Maria Theresa had already given birth to 16 children. However, only ten of them reached adulthood. The first-born child died at the age of three, one child died during birth, and four children died of smallpox at a young age.

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