The 16 Artworks of Martin Van Meytens

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Martin Van Meytens - Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717–1794) and Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1732–1794)Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717–1794) and Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1732–1794)Martin Van Meytens

Count Giacomo Durazzo, a Genoese diplomat, arrived in Vienna in 1749. Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff married him in the following year. As director of the imperial theaters from 1754 until 1764, Durazzo promoted Gluck's reform of Italian opera. This portrait probably dates to the early 17...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

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