Sketch For The Portrait Of Marie-amélie De Bourbon-siciles, France, Circa 1835.

Sketch for the portrait of Marie Amélie de Bourbon-Siciles, oil on canvas, around 1835, France, in its original frame surmounted by a royal crown.

Marie-Amélie de Bourbon, princess of Naples and Sicily, is a Sicilian princess born in Caserta (Naples) on April 26, 1782 and died in Claremont (United Kingdom) on March 24, 1866. From the Bourbon branch of Sicily, Princess Marie-Amélie is a member of the elder branch of the Bourbons. When she married in 1809 to the first blood prince Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, she became a member of the younger branch. First Duchess of Orleans, she became the second queen of the French when her husband reached the throne of the French in 1830 under the name of Louis-Philippe I.