Herrscher im "royaume agricole". Das kaiserliche Pflugen als Gegenstand reformabsolutistischer Bildsprache
2001; Deutscher Kunstverlag; Volume: 64; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3657245
ISSN2569-1619
Autores Tópico(s)European history and politics
ResumoIn 1769, an episode during which Joseph II of Austria ploughed part of a peasant's field generated much public interest. As soon as the incident became known, pictorial represetations of it appeared. Monuments commemorating it were still being erected in the 19th century. The writer examines two representations of the incident, a pre-1785 print by Johann Baptist Bergmuller and a 1777 painting by Franz Anton Maulbertsch, works that show how the incident was used to secure the continuity of a monarchy caught up in a crisis of legitimation.
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