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Wenzel Anton Prince Kaunitz

Artist:
Giuseppe Ceracchi (1751 Rom - 1801 Paris) DNB

Depiction/Person:
Fürst Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz (1711 - 1794) DNB

Time:
1780

Object Name
bust; portrait head; stone sculpture

Culture
Vienna

Material/technology:
Marble

Dimensions:
89 cm × 40 cm × 63 cm

Signed
JOS. CERACCHI ROMANUS FACIEBAT VINDOBONAE 1780

Inscribed
Sockel: "HANC WENC. PRINCIPIS A KAUNITZ RIETBERG CIVIS ET ADMINISTRI BENEMERENTIS EFFIGIEM. MAR. THERESIAE IMP. REG. MANDATO HOC MARMORE EXPRESSAM JOSEPHUS II. AUGUSTUS QUOD LITTERARUM QUOQUE AC BONARUM ARTIUM INCREMENTUM EGREGIE CURAVERIT IN HOC PICTORIAE ARTIS MUSAEO MATRIS AUG. DESIDERIO ANNUENS REPOSITAM VOLUIT. MDCCLXXXI."

Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer

Invs.
Kunstkammer, 6894