Emperor Charles VI on a Horse with the Personification of the Holy Roman Empire
ca. 1711/12, Artist: Matthias Steinl
Emperor Charles VI on a Horse with the Personification of the Holy Roman Empire
This statuette shows Charles VI, who in 1711 was chosen to succeed his prematurely deceased brother Joseph I as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, with an obeisant personification of the empire. He commissioned the work to compliment the equestrian portraits of his two predecessors created by the same master some twenty years earlier.
Object data
Object Name
Statuette; ivory carving
Culture
Vienna
Dated
ca. 1711/12
Artist
Matthias Steinl (1643/44 Mattsee/Salzburg ? - 1727 Wien) - GND
Material
Ivory
Dimensions
73,7 cm × 53 cm × 32 cm
Signed
Steinle
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer
Inv. No.
Kunstkammer, 4664
Depiction/Person
Kaiser Karl VI. Sohn des Leopold I. von Habsburg Österreich (1685 - 1740) - GND
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