[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG).https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/5278/fullMaria Theresac. 176090 × 75 × 55 cm, 220 kg
Bronze, gilded42411At the very start of his career, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was awarded a prestigious job: Prince Joseph Wenzel I. of Liechtenstein entrusted a commission for busts of the imperial couple to the up-and-coming sculptor. This was to show his gratitude to Maria Theresa after she had commissioned a bust of the prince from sculptor Balthasar Ferdinand Moll as a tribute to Liechtenstein’s services as a field marshal.
Messerschmidt’s bronze portraits of the monarch and her consort, Francis Stephen I, appear both dignified and full of life. They were placed on display, together with Moll’s bust of the prince, in the Emperor’s Hall of the Imperial-Royal Armory, as historical watercolors document. These stores for the imperial weapons’ collection in the center of Vienna were demolished in the 1860s.Sculpture111189343035Upper Belvedereimage/jpegCC-BY-SA 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Foto: Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/5278/fullhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-3035/manifest