[1] Ranc was subsequently replaced by Louis Michel van Loo as court painter and it was he who painted the Spanish royal family in 1738 and 1743.

Infante Felipe, future Duke of Parma, aged three at the time of the painting is stood between his parents and holds a yellow flower.

An oval painting shows Infanta Mariana Victoria, fiancée of Louis XV, who was residing in France at the time.

[2] The background of the painting is a large room reminiscent of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, incidentally where Felipe V was born in 1683.

[2] Media related to The Family of Philip V (Jean Ranc - Prado Museum) at Wikimedia Commons