Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, Prince of Oneglia

Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, Prince of OnegliaEramanuel Phitibert (1588 1624): son of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy; created Prince of Oneglia, 1620, and Viceroy of Sidly, 1621. The armour, decorated with emblems of the House of Savoy, survives in the Royal Armouries at Madrid. Painted during Van Dyck's stay in Palermo in the spring and summer of ; at this time there was an outbreak of plague, from which Emmanuel Philibert died on 3 August. The composition seems to be based on a lost portrait

Desenfans bought this work in 1785 believing it to be by Rembrandt

A frequently quoted account by the French art theorist and early owner of the work

A closely comparable landscape in the Národní Galerie

and an almost surreal focus on the foreground group of birches to the left

in which the model appears to be the same (sold Sotheby's Colonnade

His oeuvre mainly consists of two main themes: peasant vices

The artist displayed even at twenty his mastery of textures - the luxurious skin tones

and the river is the Scheldt

that it represents a specific individual

Formerly catalogued as School of Le Brun

Carlo and Ubaldo

A tentative attribution to Thomas has been suggested independently by H