This portrait of Teresa Mestre Baladia won a special prize in the "V International Art Exhibition (1907)." The creation of this award was due to the initiative of Eugeni d'Ors to create a "Beautiful Catalan women Gallery" in contrast to the existing "Illustrious Catalan mens." Casas agreed that this work was acquired to appear only in the museum, and not toform part of any portrait galleryThis work has been selected for the project 'Partage Plus - Digitising and Enabling Art Nouveau for Europeana'