Portrait of the Duchess of Berry is an 1824 portrait painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun depicting the Italian Marie-Caroline, Duchess of Berry, a member of the reigning Bourbon Dynasty of France.
[1] Le Brun had been a leading painter of Ancien Regime France, associated with Marie Antoinette.
The painting was commissioned by the French crown, one of a major works featuring the Duchess during the period.
After the assassination of her husband at the opera 1820, the Duchess gave birth to a posthumous son - the apparent future heir Henry, Duke of Bordeaux.
[5] Today the painting is in a private collection, but featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016.