2-702-596 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Klemens Lothar Wenzel Fürst von Metternich', (1933). Portrait of Austrian diplomat and statesman Prince von Metternich (Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, 1773-1859). Klemens von Metternich was one of the most important diplomats of his era, serving as the Austrian Empire's Foreign Minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation. After a miniature of 1812 by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]