A few months after the assassination of her husband the Duke of Berry in 1820, she gave birth to a child Henri who seemed to secure the succession for the House of Bourbon.

He was commissioned by George IV to travel to France to paint Charles X the year of his Coronation in Rheims.

[1] While in the country he also painted the king's eldest son Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême.

Impressed by the depictions of her father and brother-in-law, Berry secured his services for a portrait.

After the July Revolution that sent the Bourbons into exile, the Duchess launched an unsuccessful 1832 landing in attempt to place her son on the throne.