Portrait of Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise de Naples, Wife of Charles Ferdinand, Duke de Berry, in the Park de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris

The painting was created in 1815 by François Gérard as a portrait of Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berry, depicting her in the Parc de Bagatelle. According to Wikidata records, the work entered the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, forming part of the Jacques Goudstikker collection. It subsequently passed to the heirs of Goudstikker and was held by the Collection Goudstikker heirs.

From there the painting was incorporated into the holdings of the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, the Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties, the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, and the Instituut Collectie Nederland, before being transferred to the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection. It is now held in the Rijksmuseum, where it remains part of the institution's collection.

The painting is held in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, with inventory number SK-C-1800.

It was first recorded in the Jacques Goudstikker collection before entering Dutch national ownership through the Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties and later allocated to the Rijksmuseum in 1945. The work has been exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in multiple displays dedicated to 19th-century portraiture and French Romanticism since its acquisition.

François Gérard’s 1815 oil portrait presents the Duchess of Berry amid the leafy setting of the Parc de Bagatelle in Paris. The composition places the aristocratic sitter on a bench, accompanied by a small dog, against a softened backdrop of trees and an indistinct structure. The work exemplifies the neoclassical approach to portraiture that dominated French art during the transition from the Empire to the Restoration.