A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, ca. 1770–83, Austrian, probably Pressburg (Bratislava), Tin alloy, Overall (wt. confirmed): 14 9/16

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A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, ca. 1770–83, Austrian, probably Pressburg (Bratislava), Tin alloy, Overall (wt. confirmed): 14 9/16 x 9 5/8 x 11 5/8 in., 25lb. (37 x x cm, 119kg), Sculpture, Messerschmidt, the leading sculptor at the court in Vienna in the 1760s, was forced, for personal and professional reasons, to leave for the provinces and by 1777 had settled in Pressburg (today Bratislava

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