Resumen de Herrscher im "royaume agricole". Das kaiserliche Pflügen als Gegenstand reformabsolutistischer Bildsprache
In 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 Bergmüller 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.
