Portrait of Catherine Opalinska, Queen Consort... Lot n° 352

Oil on canvas, canvas measurements: 131 x 105. Catherine Opalinska (Polish Katarzyna Opalińska; Poznań, Poland, October 13, 1680 – Lunéville, France, March 19, 1747), was queen consort of Poland twice and great Duchess consort of Lithuania through her marriage to Stanislaus I of Poland. Catalina was the second daughter of magnate Juan Carlos Opalinski and his wife Zofia Czarnkowska. On May 10, 1698 in Kraków, she married Stanislaus I of Poland, who became Duke of Lorraine and briefly King of Poland. In 1699, she gave birth to her first daughter, Anne, and in 1703, to Mary, Queen of the French, who would be the future wife of Louis XV.