Portrait of Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France

In 1748 the War of the Austrian Succession was settled at Aix-la-Chapelle, and the treaty handed the duchy of Parma to Don Philip of Spain, who was married to Louis XV's eldest daughter. The royal accounts of works commissioned that year record a copy of the large portrait of the queen, asked for by the king for Spain. Louise Élisabeth had been married at 12 and had lived at the Madrid court since 1739, and this canvas is thought to be the copy sent out to her. It travelled on with the couple to Parma and reached Florence between 1860 and 1870.

It repeats the state portrait Carle van Loo painted of Marie Leszczyńska in 1747, which now hangs at Versailles. Who made the repetition is open. The Italian state catalogue enters no author's name for it, records that it is usually given to Laurent Pécheux, a French painter settled in Turin, and allows that van Loo may have painted it himself.

It appears with no author beside it in the list of pictures removed from Parma that Glauco Lombardi compiled in the early 1920s.