Duchess of Goiás

Portrait of young woman, half-body, sitting on rounded-backed chair, upholstered in red. Long face. Dark hair, split in half, with side curls. Thin, brown eyebrows. Thin nose. Small mouth, showing a smile. Stained faces. Black, long, closed dress, with long and wide sleeves, trimmed with white lace on the collar, chest and cuffs. Arms on his lap, the left leaning against a towel-covered piece of furniture and, above it, a bookcase and two overlapping books. Right hand with ring on the ring, supported by left hand. In the background, architectural background on the left and landscape and red curtain on the right. Author's signature and date in the lower left corner, in ocher ink: "W / 1853". Inscriptions on the upper back of the frame, in a stamp in the form of a palette: "ANCIENT CASA CAVALIER / PINTURA, DESIGN AND / FRAMES / RUA S. JOSÉ, 83 / RIO DE JANEIRO". Golden wood frame, with shells protruding at the angles, in the center of the sides and the upper and lower parts.
The portrait is Isabel Maria de Alcântara Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, May 23, 1824 - Murnau [Bavaria], November 3, 1898), the first and only Duchess of Goiás, daughter of D. Pedro I and Domitila de Castro Canto and Melo, Marchionness de Santos.