Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry was the third child and younger son of Charles X, King of France, by his wife Maria Theresa of Savoy. In 1820 he was assassinated at the Paris Opera by Louis Pierre Louvel, a Bonapartist. In June 1832, two years after the overthrow of Charles X, an unsuccessful royalist insurrection in the Vendée was led by Charles Ferdinand's widow, Marie-Caroline, in an attempt to restore their son Henri, Comte de Chambord to the French throne.
Charles Ferdinand (left) with his older brother Louis Antoine and sister Sophie, 1781.
Assassination of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, while departing a Parisian opera house at night.
Death of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, 13 february 1820.
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry was an Italian princess of the House of Bourbon who married into the French royal family, and was the mother of Henri, Count of Chambord. She led an unsuccessful rebellion against King Louis-Philippe I to install her son on the French throne.
Marie Caroline in mourning with her daughter Louise Marie Thérèse. The two look longingly upon a bust of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry.
La moisson (1822) by Auguste-Xavier Leprince, oil on canvas, 24.2 x 32.1 cm, featured in her 1822 sale