S.A.R. Mgr le Duc de Bordeaux...S.A.R. Mademoiselle...(Portr. du Comte de Chambord et la duchesse de Parme, enfants)
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 in. (38.5 × 28.2 cm) Image: 12 7/8 × 10 7/16 in. (32.7 × 26.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967
Accession Number
67.539.255
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1822, during France's Bourbon Restoration, this lithograph captured a tender moment of royal infancy: S.A.R. Mgr le Duc de Bordeaux (Henri, Count of Chambord, born 1820) and S.A.R. Mademoiselle (likely his sister Louise d'Artois, future Duchess of Parma). Created by a talented trio—lithographers Hyacinthe-Louis-Victor-Jean Aubry-Lecomte and Féréol de Bonnemaison, alongside painter Louis Hersent—the print depicts the siblings in ornate cradles, evoking innocence and dynastic promise amid political turbulence. Lithography, a revolutionary technique invented just two decades earlier, allowed ...
About the Artist
Hyacinthe-Louis-Victor-Jean-Baptiste Aubry-Lecomte|Louis Hersent|Féréol de Bonnemaison (French|French) · 1767 |1797 –1824 |1858
French, Montargis 1767–1824 Paris|French, Nice 1797–1858 Paris