Portrait of Prince Henri, Count of Chambord
Fine Arts
Inventory number
2021.1.31.2.FA.PA.C1845.GBDescription
Painting on porcelain portrait of a young man known as Henri d'Artois (1820 - 1883), petit-fils de France, Duke of Bordeaux, is a prince of the royal family of France, head of the Capetian house of Bourbon, better known by his courtesy title of Count of Chambord. The posthumous son of Charles-Ferdinand d'Artois, Duke of Berry, younger son of the Comte d'Artois, and of his wife Marie-Caroline des Deux-Siciles. Grandson of King Charles X, chief and last representative of the elder and French branch of the House of Bourbon, he was pretender to the Crown of France from 1844 to his death under the name of Henri V.Appointed as king in 1830, at the age of nine, in the act of abdication of his grandfather, Charles X, and of renunciation of his uncle, the Dauphin (future pretender "Louis XIX"), he will not exercise this function because of the rise of the Duke of Orleans to the throne. He then went into exile with his whole family in England.
Returning to France after the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, he rallied to him the royalist majority of the new national assembly, reconciled with the branch of Orléans (which nevertheless posed as heir to the elder branch of the Bourbons), and assisted the failure of a restoration project.
Materials
Watercolor on porcelainBrass
Velvet
Cardboard
Origin
circa 1845 United KingdomDimensions
Length : 11.2 cmHeight : 14.2 cm