A Jacobite Gazetteer - Spain

The Patrimonio Nacional is the Spanish state collection of royal residences and their contents.

Among the paintings in the collection is one by Giuseppe Duprà of a young Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy (later King Charles IV).¹ Charles is shown standing in a powdered wig. He wears a red coat with large green cuffs, green breast panels, and a green waistcoat; the cuffs, breast-panels, and waistcoat are trimmed with gold brocade. Around his neck he wears a white neckerchief. From his shoulders hangs a light cape. In his right hand he grasps the barrel of a gun. His left hand rests on his hip.

The painting is a copy of a work by Giuseppe's older brother Domenico Duprà which hangs in the Appartamento di Madama Felicita in the Palazzo Reale in Turin; it varies in a number of details of the wig, the clothing, and the placement of the left arm. Presumably the Madrid portrait was sent by Charles' mother Infanta Maria Antonia of Spain as a gift to her brother King Charles III of Spain.

Charles IV, when Duke of Savoy, by Duprà