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type: press_release
title: Maria Theresa and the Arts
language: en
url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/press/maria-theresa-and-arts"
---

# Maria Theresa and the Arts

30 June 2017 – 5 November 2017

For further press images please contact: press@belvedere.at

[PM-Maria-Theresia-de.pdf](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-files/PM-Maria-Theresia-de.pdf)

[PM-Maria-Theresia-en.pdf](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-files/PM-Maria-Theresia-en.pdf)

![Oil on canvas, 237,5 x 157 cm — Daniel Schmidely, Maria Theresa in Hungarian Coronationdress, 1742 — © Galéria mesta Bratislavy](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282844313_0.jpg)

## Press images 

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_468272295425_1.jpg) 

Friedrich Heinrich Füger, Empress Maria Theresa with Her Children, 1776

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835176.jpg) 

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Homage to Maria Theresia Sketch for the frontispiece of the fifth volume of the "Supplementum Codicis Austriaci" etched and engraved by Johann Veit Kauperz, ca. 1769

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835177_0.jpg) 

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Maria Theresa, 1760

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835175_0.jpg) 

Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, ca. 1730

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835174_0.jpg) 

Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Emperor Charls VI, 1730

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835173.jpg) 

Daniel Gran, Allegory of Morning, Aurora in the Chariot, Sketch for the ceiling fresco in the northern vestibule in Hetzendorf Castle, ca. 1747

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835172_0.jpg) 

Agamemnon Hunting/ Study for the ceiling painting of the Diana Temple at Laxenburg of 1766, 1763

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835171.jpg) 

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Francis I Stephen, 1760

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835170.jpg) 

Bathasar Ferdinand Moll, The Coronation of Maria Theresa as Queen of Bohemia in the Prague Cathedral on 12 May 1743 Four Reliefs with Scenes from the Life of Maria Theresa and Francis I, 1754

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835169_0.jpg) 

Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton, Pheasants, 1745

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835167_0.jpg) 

Johann Christian Brand, Laxenburg from the Schneiderau towards Guntramsdorf and Mödling, 1758

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282835168_0.jpg) 

Johann Christian Brand, Coast Landscape with Sumpters, 1771

© Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_490282844313_1.jpg) 

Daniel Schmidely, Maria Theresa in Hungarian Coronationdress, 1742

© Galéria mesta Bratislavy

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_495246655958_0.jpg) 

Exhibition view "Maria Theresa and the Arts"

Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_495246655956_0.jpg) 

Exhibition view "Maria Theresa and the Arts"

Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_495246655954_0.jpg) 

Exhibition view "Maria Theresa and the Arts"

Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_495246655953_0.jpg) 

Exhibition view "Maria Theresa and the Arts"

Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_495246656848.jpg) 

Exhibition view "Maria Theresa and the Arts"

Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_495246656849.jpg) 

Exhibition view "Maria Theresa and the Arts"

Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_495246656850.jpg) 

Exhibition view "Maria Theresa and the Arts"

Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna

![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_495246656905.jpg) 

Johann Christian Brand, Battle at Hochkirch, after1769

© Belvedere, Vienna

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For more information and press images please contact:

#### Media Relations 

##### Petra Fuchs 

T: [+43 1 795 57-177](tel:+43179557-177)

M: [+43 664 800 141-177](tel:+43664800141-177)

E-Mail: [**p.fuchs@belvedere.at**](mailto:p.fuchs@belvedere.at)

## Related exposition

[**Maria Theresa and the Arts**](https://www.belvedere.at/en/maria-theresa-and-arts-0) — 30 June 2017 - 5 November 2017 — Exhibition — Lower Belvedere
