ID: POL-000107-P/57574

Portrait of Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska as Venus with Cupid and two cooing doves

ID: POL-000107-P/57574

Portrait of Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska as Venus with Cupid and two cooing doves

Oil painting on canvas from around 1699 by Martin Maingaud. It depicts Thérèse de Cunegunda as Venus with Cupid and two cooing doves. Thérèse Kunegunda was the daughter of King John III Sobieski and Marie Casimire d'Arquien. After her marriage to the Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian II Emmanuel, she was called Kurfürstin Therese Kunigunde.
The portrait belongs to the Bavarian State Collection of Paintings in Munich (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München).

https://www.porta-polonica.de/de/atlas-der-erinnerungsorte/dynastische-hochzeiten-zwischen-polnischen-und-deutschen-16#lg=10&slide=3
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Kunegunda_Sobieska