Bust front in uniform with sash and medals.

Klemens Wenzel Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg (1773-1859), Austrian Statesman, 1803-06 Austrian Envoy to Berlin

Modeled by Leopold Heuberger, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1814/15

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