Portrait of the Duchess of Berry (Le Brun)

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.