Mary Stuart Proclaiming Her Innocence (French: Marie Stuart Protestant de son innocence à la lecture de sa condamnation à mort) is an 1832 history painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez.

[1][2] It depicts the scene at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire on 25 October 1586 after Mary Queen of Scots was found guilty of treason against her cousin Elizabeth I of England.

After reading her death sentence for her part in the Babington Plot she proclaims her innocence aloud.

[3] The painting was originally commissioned in 1827 by the Count of Arache and exhibited at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan in 1832.

[4] Hayez also produced an 1827 painting of Mary Stuart ascending the steps of the scaffold shortly before her execution.