"Watercolor Engraving Before 1830: Mademoiselle d'Artois "
Legitimist engraving representing Mademoiselle d'Artois still a child. (1819-1864). Daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Berry, granddaughter of Charles X, she married the heir to the Duchy of Parma, was even regent after her husband's death, but the spring of European revolutions forced her into exile in Venice where she died at the age of 44. This engraving is watercolored, and framed in its original frame (small losses). The background is closed by strips of period wallpaper.