{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"10738"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Dauerleihgabe aus Privatbesitz"},"locationssite":{"label":"Location","value":"Upper Belvedere"},"invno":{"label":"Inventory number","value":"Lg 1150"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Physician Franz Anton Mesmer, who was personally acquainted with Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, applied magnets to patients suffering from \u201cnervous diseases.\u201d They were thought to remove blockages and restore the flow of the vital life force. After moving to Paris in 1778, Mesmer started using a baquet for his group therapies. This was a wooden tub filled with \u201cmagnetized water\u201d with protruding iron rods and ropes, as shown in the illustration. Patients placed these ropes and rods on particular parts of their bodies to alleviate symptoms.\r\n\r\nMesserschmidt may have found out about the baquet therapies from published reports while he was in Pressburg/Bratislava. It is possible that some Head Pieces reference Mesmer\u2019s methods, which were controversial even in his day. One example is \u201cCharacter Head\u201d No. 25 with a rope depicted around the bust\u2019s neck."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Metal (cast lead?)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"1"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":["https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/65412/full"]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Franz Anton Mesmer"},"classification":{"label":"Genre","value":"Sculpture"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/65405/full"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1770"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"10762894"},"iiifManifest":{"value":"https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-10738/manifest"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"48 x 22 x 22 cm"}}]}