School of Savoy, circa 1740

Oil on canvas. The original canvas is coarse and not lined. The picture surface is in fair condition. There is surface dirt and dust and a dirty varnish. There are small scattered areas of lifting and cupping, and in some areas there are small losses. These areas are scattered across the surface, but include the subject's central forehead, proper left cheek and chin; a larger loss in the sky at center right; and some older, repaired losses in the sitter's hands. Under UV light, there are scattered older retouches in the subjects face and hairline. Additional scattered retouches in his proper right hand and cuff. A larger area of retouching to the right of his medal. An area of florescence in the landscape at right.
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Vittorio Amadeo III, Duke of Savoy was born in 1726 in Turin, son of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and Polyxena of Hesse-Rotemburg. He was the eldest son of this marriage and was given the same name as a son from his father's first marriage who died in 1725. In the present portrait, he is depicted wearing the Order of the Annunciata, a dynastic order of knighthood that was founded in the 1360s by Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy.