# Tomb of Duchess Maria Christina of Saxony-Teschen [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CANOVA, Antonio]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Carrara marble, height 574 cm ## Commentary Duchess Maria Christina was the daughter of the Empress Maria Theresia. Designed between 1790 and 1795 as a monument to Titian, the execution of the tomb was no longer possible after the occupation of Venice by the French in 1797. The reallocation of a memorial monument to a different dead person - hitherto hardly conceivable - only became feasible because it was its artistic quality which came first. It was produced before the purchaser had attributed a specific meaning to it. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte]() - [Cupid and Psyche \(detail\)]() - [Cupid and Psyche \(detail\)]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Eurydice]() - [Feed the Hungry]() - [Funerary Monument of Francesco Pesaro \(model\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()