Artist: Messerschmidt
Date: 1780
Size: 24 x 17 cm
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
Technique: Alabaster
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is mainly known today for his unique series of character heads. Born into the Straub family of sculptors, he started carving alongside his uncles, and later continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Art. The success of his early bronze busts of the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband Franz Stefan of Lorraine (both in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna) led to a whole series of further commissions. Messerschmidt soon became the imperial family
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