In Asturleonés Maria Barbara. Thus they called María Bárbara Asquín, the dwarf that appears in the foreground on the right after a mastiff in the Meninas de Velázquez, a painting that at first was instituted Portrait of the Lady Empress with her ladies and a dwarf; in the eighteenth century, the family of Lord King Phelipe Quarto and then the Family. In the Secret of Maribárbola a Spanish journalist fondly recreates this character of our culture.