Princess Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp became Queen of Sweden in 1654, when she married Karl X Gustav. This portrait was painted a few months before the wedding. The princess’s virtues, fertility and high birth are represented in allegorical form. She is being crowned by the goddess Minerva. Flowers, coins and jewels fall from the sky, where putti hold aloft the arms of Holstein-Gottorp. The portrait may have been a gift to her husband to be.