Art / Style/ The Duchess of Alba

With her recent passing a look back at some of the looks of the controversial and most numerously titled Duchess 

And finally a look at the beautiful portrait of her ancestor, Maria Cayetana de Silva, the 13the Duchess of Alba, titled The White Duchess, painted in 1795 by Francisco Goya. 

A later portrait also by Goya of the same Duchess, The Mourning Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, also known as The Black Duchess, painted in 1797.