Lot 140: Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, Duc de Bordeaux, and Comte de Chambord (1820–1883), seated and wearing brown smoking jacket with red lapels and black velvet arm pads, white chemise and loosely knotted black tie, red night

Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, Duc de Bordeaux, and Comte de Chambord (1820–1883), seated and wearing brown smoking jacket with red lapels and black velvet arm pads, white chemise and loosely knotted black tie, red night cap. Watercolour on ivory, signed on the obverse, Albanesi, gilt-wood frame with egg-and-dart border and pierced cresting displaying three fleur-de-lys, crown and laurel leaf sprays. Rectangular, 101mm (4in) high

Henri's father, Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duc de Berry (1778–1820), had been assassinated seven months before his birth and the senior line of the Bourbon dynasty was simultaneously thrust onto the verge of extinction. Henri was given the name Dieudonné ('God-given') and Royalists called him, "the miracle child". In response to the July Revolution, the year 1830, saw the abdications of both Henri's grandfather, Charles X and that of his uncle, Louis Antoine, Duc d'Angoulême. Lieutenant Général du Royaume, Louis Philippe d'Orléans was supposed to proclaim Henri as Henri V but he deliberately failed to do so and wasdeclared Louis Philippe I on 9 August that same year. In November 1846, Henri married his second cousin, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1817-1886) and the couple had no children. Henri died on 24 August 1883 at his residence in Frohsdorf, Austria, by which time, public opinion had swung in favour of a Republic. His personal property, including the Château de Chambord was left to his nephew, Robert I, Duke of Parma.