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Las Meninas is a painting by Diego Velazquez. It is Spanish for the ladies in waiting. It features the young infanta Margaret Theresa the daughter of King Philip IV and his second wife Mariana of Austria. She is surrounded by her entourage of ladies in waiting or maids of honor and bodyguard and chaperone etc.
I don't know if this is the right answer but His father being a stern taskmaster who treated his son harshly, was sent to Vienna to study with Franz Joseph Haydn, and not being able to marry the countess