Karakterkop naar Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 - 1783) - 1/3 kandelaar het facet geslepen kristalglas vangt

het facet geslepen kristalglas vangt het licht langs de geslepen randen

full of warm tones and natural figure

Als paar staan de kandelaren het mooist symmetrisch

Afwerking en detaillering verraden het handwerk

Karakterkop naar Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 - 1783) - 1/3 kandelaar het facet geslepen kristalglas vangtThis bronze bust is a character head after Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 1783), modelled on his series of Charakterkpfe (Character Heads) made between 1770 and his death in 1783. Where his contemporaries carved portraits, Messerschmidt pushed the human face into extreme expression. This head is taken from The Incompetent Bassoonist, the mouth thrown open in a near shout. It is cast in bronze and finished with a dark, near black patina that reads the