[1] Berry was the nephew of the reigning monarch Louis XVIII, who had come to throne following the defeat of Napoleon's Empire.

A prominent figure of Restoration France, Berry was assassinated by a Bonapartist Louis Pierre Louvel the year of the painting.

Stabbed and mortally wounded while leaving the opera in Paris, he died the following day.

Eight months after his death, his Italian wife Marie-Caroline gave birth to a son Henry, Duke of Bordeaux who seemingly secured the succession of the House of Bourbon for a further generation.

[3] It is featured in the 1821 painting The Duchess of Berry Presenting the Duke of Bordeaux by Charles-Nicolas Lafond.