Empress Caroline Auguste of Bavaria, Wife of Francis II
Artist: Carl von Sales (German, 1791-1870)
Date: 1818
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria
Empress Caroline Auguste of Bavaria
Princess Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (German: Karoline Auguste; 8 February 1792 – 9 February 1873) was Empress of Austria by marriage to Francis I of Austria. She was the penultimate child and third daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. She firstly married to Crown Prince William of Württemberg in 1808, but they divorced in 1814.












