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Gian Gastone de' Medici (1671-1737) was the seventh and last Medicean Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was the second son of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Princess of France. He has been blamed for the extinction of the family. Due to his poor state of health during the last years of his rule, the Florentine court did not have any strong guidance. After 1729, he no longer appeared in public. This painting represents the presentation to Gian Gastone of the young Cosimo Riccardi. The Grand Duke is lying on a magnificent four-poster bed in one of the rooms of the summer apartment on the ground floor of the Pitti Palace, now known as the Amber Room.
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