2-715-195 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prince von Metternich, c1815, (1936). 'Fürst Metternich'. Portrait of Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (1773-1859), Austrian statesman and one of the most important diplomats of his era. He served as the Austrian Empire's Foreign Minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation. After the painting by Thomas Lawrence, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]