Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, facing right in silvered armour with gilt studs and scalloped blue velvet border, knotted embroidered white lace cravat, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Most Sacred Annunciation, long brown frizzed wig

Charles Emmanuel II (1635-1675), 14th Duke of Savoy, was the son of Victor Amadeus I of Savoy and his wife Christina of France. He married his first cousin Frances of Bourbon, daughter of Gaston Duke of Orléans, in 1663, and secondly Mary Joan Baptista of Savoy-Nemours in 1665. His son from his second marriage, Victor Amadeus II, became King of Sicily and first King of Sardinia. Two other miniatures depicting Duke Charles Emmanuel II are illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Miniature Sabaude, Turin, 1996, p. 15, no. 1 and 2.