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| Portrait of Prince Metternich | |
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| Artist | Thomas Lawrence |
| Year | 1815 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait |
| Location | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle |
The Portrait of Prince Metternich is a painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence of the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich.[1] Lawrence painted many European leaders involved in the alliance against Napoleon's French Empire.
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Summer Exhibition in 1815. Lawrence apparently reworked the painting, partly at a subsequent sitting during the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818, and exhibited a completed version in 1819. Now part of the Royal Collection the painting hangs in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle alongside other European leaders of the era. Several other versions of the painting exist with one in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
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References
Bibliography
- Levey, Michael. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Yale University Press, 2005.
- Siemann, Wolfram. Metternich: Strategist and Visionary. Harvard University Press, 2019.
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