/internal/media/dispatcher/4599/fullLaxenburg from the Pavilion on the Hana Meadow, Looking toward MödlingDie Reiherbeize von Laxenburg1758[Johann Christian Brand]Johann Christian BrandOil on canvas The pavilion in the right-hand foreground is expecting a prominent guest. None less than the monarch Maria Theresa will enjoy the view from here. On the one hand she can overlook the castle in Laxenburg that belongs to the imperial family, on the other she can easily watch the falconry from this position. In this case, the falcons are being used to hawk herons, but not to kill them. After checking their condition, the herons were generally released back into the wild. Brand captured this courtly pastime in a series of four paintings, of which this is the first. They are precise depictions of the area around Laxenburg near Vienna. This was extremely innovative because up until that time landscapes had often been the product of their painter’s imagination. Brand was able to propagate this new painting style in his role as a professor at the academy in Vienna; as a result, he became an influential figure for nineteenth-century Viennese landscape painters.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8377/rdf