Portrait of Maria Margherita di Savoia, Duchess of Mantua (1589-1655), aged six, full-length, in an elaborately embroidered dress set with pearls, before a raised green curtain

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Follower of Jan Kraek, called Giovanni Caracca
Portrait of Maria Margherita di Savoia, Duchess of Mantua (1589-1655), aged six, full-length, in an elaborately embroidered dress set with pearls, before a raised green curtain
inscribed 'MARGARITA. SAB.PRINC. AN. AET. SVAE. VI.' (upper centre)
oil on canvas, unlined
52¾ x 38 in. (134 x 96.5 cm.)
with Racconigi paper label to the reverse

Provenance

Castello di Racconigi, Turin

Exhibited

Mantua, The Ducal Palace, Mostra Iconografica Gonzaghesca, 16 May-19 September, 1937, no. 16.

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Lot Essay

Maria Margherita was the daughter of Carlo Emanuele I (Il Grande), Duke of Savoy, and in 1608 married Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1586-1612), who ruled Mantua very briefly in 1612. There is a painting of her as Duchess by Frans Pourbus II in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (inv. No. 6957).

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