An important Vienna porcelain plaque depicting "Hera putting Zeus to Sleep on Mount Ida"

This exceptionally finely painted plaque presents a reproduction of a work by Andries Cornelis Lens (1739 - 1822) that was painted in 1775 for M. de la Ferté in Paris. The piece is known to have been housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna since 1783 (inv. no. 1367) and Karl Hermann Pfeiffer made an engraving of the work in 1803. Johann Weichselbaum (1752 - 1840) visited the Vienna Academy and was a pupil of Heinrich Friedrich Füger. He entered the porcelain manufactory as a design and figur

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