Baron François-Joseph Bosio (French, 1768–1845) Queen Marie-Amélie of France, 1841 Marble; H. with base 32 1/2 in. (82.5 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Wrightsman Fund, 1990 (1990.60)		Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Charles-Henri, Duc d'Orléans
Queen Marie-Amélie was the wife of King Louis-Philippe and the mother of the duc d'Orléans. This particular bust of her was sent in 1841 to Ferdinand, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, into whose family two of the queen's children had married. Back

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