Lot 119: Juan Pantoja de la Cruz , Madrid 1551 - 1608 Portrait of Prince Felipe Emmanuele (1586-1605) of Savoy, half length, wearing the badges of the orders of the Annunziata and St. Mauricius and Lazarus oil on canvas

signed and dated centre left: pantoja de la +/ 1604 and with inventory number lower right: 52686 oil on canvas

measurements note 63.2 by 46.8 cm.; 24 7/8 by 18 1/2 in.

Felipe Emmanuele of Savoy was the eldest son of Carlo Emmanuele, Duke of Savoy and the Infanta Doña Catalina Micaela of Austria, daughter of King Philip II of Spain. Felipe Emmanuele died unmarried in 1605, just prior to his 19th birthday. With his death his younger brother Vittorio Amadeo succeeded his father as Duke of Savoy in 1630, having married Princess Christina (1606-1663), daughter of King Henry IV of France, on 10th February 1619. There is a three-quarter length portrait of Felipe Emmanuele in Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes (for which see M. Kusche, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz..., Madrid 2007, p. 162, reproduced fig. 118).