Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême

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Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême is a 1816 oil painting by French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. It shows Marie Thérèse of France, the only surviving child of Louis XVI, who returned to France after Napoleon’s defeat. She had married her cousin, the Duke of Angoulême, and was a leading figure at the Restoration court. Although she would likely have become queen, the Bourbon monarchy was overthrown in the July Revolution of 1830. The portrait was commissioned by her uncle and father-in-law, the future Charles X, for the Chamber of Deputies. It was shown at the 1817 Salon in the Louvre, and today it hangs in the Palace of Versailles. A study for the painting is in the Bowes Museum. Two years later Gros painted another work featuring the Duchess, The Embarkation of the Duchess of Angoulême at Pauillac.