# Portrait of Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Mantua [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POURBUS, Frans the Younger]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 207 x 116 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Mantua 1608 Oil on canvas, 207 x 116 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Margaret of Savoy, Duchess Consort of Mantua and Montferrat \(1589-1655\) was best known as the last Spanish Vicereine of Portugal. In Portuguese she is known as Duquesa de Mântua. She was born, during the powerful imperial reign of her maternal grandfather Philip II of Spain, as the fifth child of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy \(1562-1630\) and infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain \(1567-97\). In 1608 she was married to Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. During the same year Pourbus painted the Duchess's full-length portrait. ## Related artworks - [An Unknown Spanish Noblewoman]() - [Archdukes Albert and Isabella]() - [Elisabeth of France, Queen of Spain]() - [Elisabeth of France]() - [Elisabeth of France]() - [Henri IV]() - [Henry IV, King of France in Armour]() - [Henry IV, King of France in Black Dress]() - [Isabella Clara Eugenia of Austria]() - [Louis XIII as a Child]() - [Margherita Gonzaga, Princess of Mantua]() - [Marie de Médicis, Queen of France]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()