The Funerary Monument of Maria Christina of Austria, Karl Joseph Aloys Agricola, after Antonio Canova, 1812
marbled paper, h c.555mm × w c.400mm More details
The Viennese painter and printmaker Karl Agricola reproduced Canova’s monument for Maria Christina in six etchings. The last sheet depicts the sculpted girl with a torch entering the tomb. As the viewer, we see her as though we were actually in the tomb ourselves; a visual invention worthy of Canova.
