DescriptionMargaret of Austria, daughter of Emperor Maximilian I, was betrothed at the age of three to the infant Charles VIII of France. She is shown here at age ten, one year before she was repudiated by her intended husband. The elaborate pendant of a pelican piercing its breast to feed its young (its blood represented by the large hanging ruby), a symbol of Christian charity, alludes to the sitter's piety. The portrait was the left wing of a diptych; the right wing (now lost) would have shown the Virgin and Child.

ProvenanceDon Sebastián Gabriel de Beaujeu, Braganza y Borbón, infante of Spain and Portugal; his son, Prince Pierre de Bourbon et Bourbon, duke of Dúrcal, Paris; his sale, American Art Association, Chickering Hall, New York, April 10–11 1889, lot 24 (as "Dona Juana La Loca" by Hans Holbein the Elder; not sold); his sale, Haro Frères et Bloche, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 3, 1890, lot 23 (as "Jean La Folle" by Holbein); sold to His Excellency Manuel de Yturbe, Paris; his granddaughter, Princess Hohenlohe, Paris; [F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York], 1926; acquired by Philip Lehman from Kleinberger in March 1926