Karakterkop naar Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 - 1783) - 1/3 kandelaar Afwerking en detaillering verraden het

Afwerking en detaillering verraden het handwerk

This edition is hand-carved in white marble

a centuries-old process prized for its precision and craftsmanship

full of warm tones and natural figure

recognisable by its warm flame figure and the small knots in the surface

Karakterkop naar Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 - 1783) - 1/3 kandelaar Afwerking en detaillering verraden hetThis 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