Buzási Enikő szerk.: In Europe' Princely Courts, Ádám Mányoki, Actors and venues of a portraitist's career (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2003/1)

Harald Marx: "THE LUCKY STAR OF PAINTING HAS RISEN" Painting and Art Patronage in Dresden under Augustus the Strong and Augustus III

Louis de Silvestre - Jean-Joseph Balechou: Minister Count Heinrich Brühl. Engraving, 1750 Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstichkabinett he copied all the fine battle scenes by the greatest artists in the elector's gallery. He did not return to Paris until he made sure he could offer the finest for the critics."

64 Francesco Casanova not only studied in Dresden, but also created much-admired works for his clients. Benjamin Gottfried Weinart noted in 1777 that the vestibule of the Kurland palace is "replete with the most beautifully painted battles, clashes and other customary events in wartime. The late Chevalier de Saxe had the famous Casanova, a renowned Paris painter of the genre, paint such pictures."

65 The halcyon days of Saxony were over by the end of the 1730s. The next decade was a period of political (and presumably economic) crisis. It would be a mistake to blame the admired and hated prime minister, Count Heinrich Brühl, personally, since the political and economic factors leading to the crisis - such as the restrictive measures of Brandenburg-Prussia imposed on Saxon