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Emperor Charles VI on a Horse with the Personification of the Holy Roman Empire
ca. 1711/12 | Matthias Steinl
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.





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.
Artist:
Matthias Steinl (1643/44 Mattsee/Salzburg ? - 1727 Wien) DNBarrow_outward
Depiction/Person:
Karl VI. (1711-1740), Kaiser (1685 - 1740) DNBarrow_outward
Time:
ca. 1711/12
Object Name
Statuette; ivory carving
Culture
Vienna
Material/technology:
Ivory
Dimensions:
73,7 cm × 53 cm × 32 cm
Signed
Steinle
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer
Invs.
Kunstkammer, 4664
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