The work portrays, at a young age, Maria Carolina, daughter of Francesco di Borbone and Maria Clementina of Austria, born in the Royal Palace of Caserta in 1798 and married in 1816 to Carlo Ferdinando Duke of Berry, second son of the future Charles X of France, with a ceremony that took place right in the Palatine Chapel of the Royal Palace of Naples.

The base of the sculpture, in bleu de roi porcelain, with gilded decorations, bears the monogram of the Neapolitan princess: “MC” intertwined and subjected to a ducal crown; while under the left arm the “D. DENUELLE / A PARIS ".

Of elegant workmanship are the dress and the elaborate hairstyle, particularly noticeable in the direction of the work, where a long braid turns several times in a serpentine on the top of the head, crossing with a band adorned with gems and beads.

The porcelain can be dated between 1824 and 1828, years in which the Princess, due to the lack of children of King Louis XVIII, who died in 24, embodied the hope of a legitimate heir for the last Bourbons of France, having given born in 1820 Henry, Count of Chambord.