拍品 1061
1061
Follower of Jan Kraek, called Giovanni Caracca
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Follower of Jan Kraek, called Giovanni Caracca

Portrait of Vittorio Amedeo I, Duke of Savoy (1587-1637), as a child, full-length, in a fawn doublet embroidered with gold and silver and red hose, an arquebus in his right hand and his a helmet on a table beside him, a landscape beyond

细节
Follower of Jan Kraek, called Giovanni Caracca
Portrait of Vittorio Amedeo I, Duke of Savoy (1587-1637), as a child, full-length, in a fawn doublet embroidered with gold and silver and red hose, an arquebus in his right hand and his a helmet on a table beside him, a landscape beyond
with inscription 'victor amedeus sab. prin.aetatis.suae viii-' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unlined
46½ x 36½ in. (118.1 x 92.7 cm.)
with Racconigi paper label to the reverse and stencilled 'P.P.R./420' on the canvas
来源
Castello di Racconigi, Turin
注意事项
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拍品专文

Vittorio Amedeo was the son of Carlo Emanuele I (Il Grande), Duke of Savoy, who had aligned Savoy with the Spanish Habsburgs in an attempt to gain the duchy of Monferrato. Vittorio Amedeo's brief dukedom was, partly in consequence, dominated by relations with Cardinal Richelieu's France. His accession to the dukedom in 1630 followed shortly on the Anglo-French peace of April 1629, depriving Savoy of an ally that had occupied the French along their Atlantic coast; Vittorio Amedeo therefore initiated a policy of pacification towards France, helped by his marriage to Louis XIII's sister. However this francophile foreign policy was deeply controversial in Savoy and, during the regency of his widow, Marie Christine, triggered civil war in the duchy, formented by Spanish support for Vittorio Amedeo's brothers, Tomaso, Prince of Carignano, and Cardinal Maurizio. This war was decisively won by Marie Christine cementing her late husband's legacy.

The pose of the young prince in this picture recalls that of his elder brother, Filippo Emanuele, in the group portrait of Three princes of the house of Savoy by Caracca in the Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, Majorca, and it may well be that the present composition derives also from a type by the artist, who worked as court painter to Carlo Emanuele I.