Juan Pantoja de la Cruz

"The following condition report has been provided by Henry Gentle, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. The original canvas is lined but the paint is raised and unstable and there has been extensive restoration to an area across the top of the painting, above the sitter's head, and down the left hand side. There is further restoration to losses across the surface, visibly discoloured in the face and the collar of the sitter. The impastoed paint to the armour is in good condition. The varnish is significantly discoloured and its removal would improve the tonality. Offered in a modern painted and part gilded frame in good condition."
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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).