Lot Essay
Charles Emanuel IV married Clotilda (1759-1802), sister of Kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X of France, on 6 September 1775. He abdicated in favour of his younger brother, Victor Emanuel I, in 1802. For a miniature showing the sitter in a similar tilted pose, see the exhibition catalogue Miniature Sabaude, Turin, Unione Industriale, 1996, p. 21, no. 3.