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October 1781 Thorvaldsen is admitted to the first part of the Academy of Fine Art’s freehand drawing school (1. frihåndsskole).
October 1782 Thorvaldsen is admitted to the second part of the Academy of Fine Art’s freehand drawing school (2. frihåndsskole).
Presumably 1785 - 1790 Grandfather Clock, N150.
3.1.1785 Advances to the plaster school of the Academy of Fine Arts.
2.1.1786 Advances to the model school of the Academy of Fine Arts.
1787 Works on a portrait bust in clay, seen by Wilhelm Theodor Ferrini in Thorvaldsen’s home. It is not known who was portrayed.
2.1.1787 Awarded the small silver medal of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Not later than March 1787 Residence at 20 Laksegade, ground floor, 20, Copenhagen.
15.4.1787 Confirmation in Holmen’s Church, Copenhagen.
Presumably 1789 - 1790 Residence at 13 Åbenrå, one half of the first floor, Copenhagen.
1789 The Royal Coat of Arms, A787.
1789 Executes four stone lions for two gates at Frederiksberg Runddel outside Frederiksberg Gardens.
Spring 1789 Cupid Resting, A756.
30.5.1789 Awarded the large silver medal of the Academy of Fine Arts for the relief Cupid Resting, A756.
Beginning of the 1790s Forms a society for drawing with C.D. Fritzsch, Heinrich Grosch and Carl Probsthayn in order to practise composition drawing for the competitions of Academy of Fine Arts.
Not later than 14.9.1790 Marie Sophie Frederikke, portrait medallion, plaster, location unknown.
Completed 14.9.1790 Executes three statues, Fama, Denmark and The Patron Gods of Norway, height c. 230 cm, for a temporary triumphal gate at Kongens Nytorv celebrating the arrival of Crown Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke in Copenhagen.
1791 Residence in Store Brøndstræde or Lille Brøndstræde, Copenhagen.
1791 - 29.8.1796 Residence and workroom at 13, Åbenrå, the entire first floor, Copenhagen.
1.6.1791 - August 1791 Helidorus Driven out of the Temple, A829.
15.8.1791 Awarded the small gold medal of the Academy of Fine Arts for the relief Helidorus Driven out of the Temple, A829.
Autumn 1791 Achilles and Priam, A791.
1792 Hercules and Omphale, A749.
1792 Numa Pomphilius and Egeria, A748, first version.
1792 Man on Horseback, A872.
1792 Member of the Holstein theatrical society Det Holstenske Dramatiske Selskab.
31.3.1792 Helidorus Driven out of the Temple, A829 is displayed in the assembly hall of the Academy of Fine Arts as are the other prizewinning works of art.
Not later than 1793 Models a portrait of the painter Nicolaus Wolff. Whether a medaillon or a bust is unknown.
Presumably 1793 Johanne Cathrine Rosing, A816.
1793 Mother and Two Children, A750.
1793 The Children of Simon Jensen, A766, and A769.
1793 Charlotte Kirstine Reiersen, A897.
1793 Eleonora Maria Jensen, A765, and A768.
1793 Elisabeth Christine Saxtorph, A904.
1793 Holger Christian Reiersen, A896.
1793 Louise Augusta, A818.
1793 Matthias Saxtorph, A903.
1793 Michael Rosing, A815.
1793 Simon Jensen, A764, and A767.
June - July 1793 Peter and John Healing a Lame Man, NysøIr. Sketch for A830.
June - July 1793 Peter and John Healing a Lame Man, NysøIv. Sketch for A830.
June 1793 - 7.8.1793 Peter and John Healing a Lame Man, A830.
14.8.1793 Awarded the large gold medal of the Academy of Fine Arts, F35, for the relief Peter and John Healing a Lame Man, A830.
Autumn 1793 Member of Det dramatiske-literaire Selskab, known as Borups Selskab (The Dramatic and Literary Society, Borup’s Society).
30.12.1793 Awarded a one-year scholarship of 100 rix-dollars by the Academy of Fine Arts. The scholarship was known as the “The copperplate engraver’s pension” (Kobberstikker-Pensionen).
1794 The Hours, A772.
1794 The Hours, Dep.22, executed from a sketch by Abildgaard.
1794 The Hours, plaster relief, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794 Euterpe, A757.
1794 Euterpe, statue, stucco, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794 Self-portrait, C885.
1794 Terpsichore, A758.
1794 Terpsichore, statue, stucco, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794 Two Muses, statues, stucco, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794 The Seasons, Dep.21, from Abildgaard’s sketch.
1794 The Seasons, plaster relief, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794 Jon Erichsen, cf. casts A795 og A862.
1794 Olav Olavsen, drawing, location unknown.
1794 Meets Johan Tobias Sergel while working at Amalienborg.
1.1.1794 Watercolour drawing for Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals, CX11 [Dep.19].
Not later than 31.3.1794 Minotaurus(?), clay, location unknown.
Middle of May 1794 Portrait of Peter Olivarius Bugge, now lost drawing for the engraving E2297.
Presumably 19.5.1794 Attends a memorial ceremony for the late Peter Olivarius Bugge at the Shooting Society in Coprenhagen.
November - December 1794 Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, final version of the relief from 1792.
Presumably 1795 Unknown, A913.
Presumably 1795 - 1796 Christian Ulrich Detlev von Eggers, C747.
Presumably 1795 - 1796 Hans Marcussen Ammitzbøll, watercolour and pencil on paper, Vejle Kunstmuseum.
1795 A.P. Bernstorff, A724.
1795 A.P. Bernstorff, A856.
1795 C. Pram, private collection, drawing for the engraving E2299.
1795 Christian Ulrich Detlev von Eggers, drawing for the engraving E2296.
1.1.1795 Watercolour drawing for Sophie Probsthayn, C821.
5.1.1795 Shows the relief Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, to the Academy of Fine Arts, with the result that his one-year scholarship of 100 rix-dollars is extended.
23.2.1795 Receives a visit from the portrait painter Hans Hansen in his home Åbenrå 13, Copenhagen.
2.11.1795 Applies for the travel grant of the Academy of Fine Arts, which is awarded on the same day.
December 1795 Carl Wilhelm Anton Eegholm, C754.
Not later than 1796 Bernt Anker?, A782.
Not later than 1796 Cecilia Kirstine Monrad, A745 og A747.
Not later than 1796 Peter Johan Monrad, A744 og A746.
Not later than 1796 Thomas Thaarup, drawing, the Theatre Museum, Copenhagen, drawing for the engraving E2298.
Presumably 1796 Unknown, A888.
1796 A.P. Bernstorff, A743.
1796 A.P. Bernstorff, A817.
Not later than January 1796 Ole Johan Samsøe, C755.
Spring 1796 With the help of A.P. Bernstorff and encouraged by Peder Horrebow Haste, among others, Thorvaldsen obtains the permission of the Admiralty to travel to Italy with the frigate Thetis on her expedition to the Mediterranean.
6.3.1796 Is godfather to Henriette Johanne and Peder Friis’ daughter, Petrine Christine Engelbrechtine Friis (1796-1820).
9.3.1796 Takes part in the wedding celebration of Frederike Dorothea and Peter Hanning Hammer.
Not later than middle of March 1796 Frederike Dorothea Hammer, C746.
Not later than middle of March 1796 Peter Hanning Hammer, portrait drawing, private collection.
Not later than middle of March 1796 Peter Hanning Hammer, portrait medallion, location unknown.
Not later than 27.3.1796 Ernst Heinrich Løffler, A864 og A630.
31.3.1796 A.P. Bernstorff, A856, is shown to Hereditary Prince Frederik at the Academy of Fine Arts.
20.5.1796 - 30.8.1796 Charlotte Amalie Fisker, portrait drawing, location unknown.
Presumably June 1796 Commemorative pamphlet for Ole Johan Samsøe, drawing for engraved vignette in the magazine Thalia.
Summer 1796 F.C. Willerup, bust, probably plaster, location unknown.
1.7.1796 Thorvaldsen’s travel grant takes effect officially.
Not later than August 1796 Hans Christopher Sonnin, portrait drawing, private collection.
Not later than August 1796 Jens Ulstrup, portrait drawing, private collection.
Not later than August 1796 Johanne Ulstrup, portrait drawing, private collection.
Middle of August 1796 Farewell party for Thorvaldsen at the Royal Shooting Range. A song by Peder Horrebow Haste is sung.
23.8.1796 Receives Instructions from the Academy of Fine Arts concerning his journey.
29.8.1796 Thorvaldsen goes on board the frigate Thetis.
30.8.1796 Thorvaldsen leaves Copenhagen on board the frigate Thetis.
31.8.1796 Thetis passes Skagen.
3.9.1796 Thetis passes Dogger Bank.
6.9. - 7.9.1796 The frigate Thetis shoots at English ships in the North Sea.
8.9.1796 Thetis passes North Foreland Lighthouse and enters the English Channel.
9.9.1796 Thetis anchors near Dover due to fog.
11.9.1796 Thetis passes Isle of Wight.
13.9. - 15.9.1796 Thetis lies off the isle of Portland in the English Channel.
16.9.1796 Thetis passes Prawle Point.
19.9.1796 Thetis passes Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth.
20.9.1796 Thetis leaves the English Channel.
21.9. - 6.10.1796 Gerhard Sievers Bille, C750.
23.9.1796 Thetis passes the island Ushant.
29.9.1796 Johan Christian Gustav Hohlenberg, C756.
30.9.1796 Thetis passes Cape Finisterre.
October or December 1796 Laurits Jensen Grove, portrait drawing, location unknown.
2.10.1796 The frigate Thetis exchanges a few shots with two Portuguese frigates off the coast of Portugal.
4.10.1796 Thetis passes Cape St. Vincent.
7.10.1796 Thetis passes Gibraltar.
8.10.1796 Thetis anchors at Malaga.
Thorvaldsen and others go ashore. He calls on the Danish consul. Visits churches and goes to the theatre, etc.
9.10.1796 The frigate Thetis waits for favourable wind. Thorvaldsen and Peder Pavels go ashore in Malaga, visit a hospital, some churches, and a coffee house.
10.10.1796 Thorvaldsen, Peder Pavels, H.A. Schmidt o.a. går igen i land i Malaga og besøger kirker, kaffehus m.m.
11.10.1796 The frigate Thetis weighs anchor and leaves Malaga, heading for Algiers.
16.10.1796 The frigate Thetis reaches Algiers and leaves its companion, the “present ship” Laurentius, there.
17.10. - 22.10.1796 The frigate Thetis sails towards Malta in stormy weather.
24.10.1796 The frigate Thetis reaches Malta and is quarantined against the risk of plague.
26.10. - 6.11.1796 Lorens Henrich Fisker, portrait drawing, Frederiksborg, Hillerød.
26.10. - 6.11.1796 Lorens Henrich Fisker, portrait drawing, location unknown.
29.10.1796 Under Thetis’ karantæne tager fregattens officerer, H.A. Schmidt, Peder Pavels og Thorvaldsen på rotur rundt i Vallettas havn.
Beginning of November 1796 Charlotte Amalie Fisker, portrait drawing, Frederiksborg, Hillerød.
3.11.1796 Maltas sundhedskommission fastholder 40 dages karantæne for Thetis fra den dag fregatten forlod Algier. Plus 20 dage, hvis Thetis i mellemtiden sejler til Tripoli.
7.11.1796 The frigate Thetis leaves Malta and heads for Tripoli.
13.11.1796 The frigate Thetis anchors in the harbour of Tripoli.
14.11. - 15.11.1796 Thetis’ kaptajn, Lorens Henrich Fisker forhandler forgæves fred med pashaen af Tripoli, Sidi Yussef.
15.11.1796 Thorvaldsen, Christian Georg Hansen and Peder Pavels go ashore in Tripoli.
The same night the frigate Thetis has to weigh anchor due to stormy weather.
16.11. - 22.11.1796 En kraftig storm tvinger Thetis østpå, og først efter fire dage bliver det muligt at sejle tilbage mod Tripoli.
23.11.1796 The frigate Thetis returns to the harbour of Tripoli and is reunited with its captain. Sails two days later towards Malta or Sicily.
Presumably December 1796 G.F. Rørbye, C751.
2.12.1796 The frigate Thetis returns to Malta, in quarantine against the plague until the 18th of December.
Middle of December 1796 The Centaur Chiron Teaching Achilles Medicin, C499, drawing for the album of the ship’s doctor Hansen.
16.12.1796 H.A. Schmidt, portrait drawing, location unknown.
18.12.1796 The quarantine of the frigate Thetis against the plague is raised, and Thorvaldsen and the crew goes ashore in Valletta.
20.12.1796 - beginning of January 1797 Stays at Scamp’s Palace in Valletta for three weeks together with Pavels while the frigate Thetis is being careened.
21.12.1796 Til middag hos den danske konsul på Malta Joseph Abela (Habela) sammen med bl.a. Lorens Henrich Fisker
26.12.1796 Visits the town of Mdina on Malta accompanied by Peder Pavels, Christian Georg Hansen, G.F. Rørbye and H.A. Schmidt.
At the turn of 1796 - 97 Outline of Fort St. Angelo in the harbour of Valletta, C818r (part of the motive).
End of December 1796 Makes a satiric drawing of an officer of the quarantine board for Peder Pavels, location unknown.
17.1.1797 The frigate Thetis departs from Malta and leaves Thorvaldsen there.
20.1.1797 Departs from Malta aboard a speronaro (coastal vessel) to Palermo on Sicily.
23.1.1797 Arrives at Palermo on Sicily.
25.1.1797 Sees a ceiling decoration by Vincenzo Manno in a church in Palermo. Visits Manno and spends the evening in his company at the local Academy of Fine Art.
26.1.1797 Visits the cathedral and other churches in Palermo.
27.1.1797 Visits Vincenzo Manno in Palermo.
28.1.1797 Departs from Palermo at 7 a.m. aboard a packet boat heading for Naples.
31.1.1797 Arrives at Naples.
1.2.1797 Thorvaldsen meets the Danish envoy to Napoli, Edmund Bourke.
2.2.1797 Visits churches in Naples.
3.2.1797 Has dinner at Bourke’s and meets Wilhelm Tischbein and Jørgen Scheel.
4.2.1797 Visits Tischbein in his studio and looks at antique works of art in Palazzo degli Studi.
5.2.1797 Visits the cathedral in Naples and other churches. After that, an excursion to Portici, where he sees the museum at Reggia di Portici.
6.2.1797 Studies antique art at the Palazzo degli Studi (the Archaeological Museum of Naples).
7.2.1797 Visits the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.
8.2.1797 Visits a number of churces in Naples. Dines with Edmund Bourke.
9.2.1797 Visits Wilhelm Tischbein and, once more, the Capodimonte Museum.
13.2.1797 Visits the porcelain factory Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte in Naples.
14.2.1797 Visits Christian Heigelin and sees his collection of art.
Presumably 15.2. - 5.3.1797 Climbs Mount Vesuvius in the company of the chemist Christoph Heinrich Pfaff.
6.3.1797 Leaves Naples for Rome, travelling along the Appian Way in the company of the German chemist Christoph Heinrich Pfaff.
7.3.1797 Passes Capua, Mola di Gaeta and Passo di Portella in Monte San Biagio on his way to Rome.
8.3.1797 Arrives in Rome. The date was later known as “Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday”.
Not earlier than 8.3.1797 - not later than 1.3.1798 Lives in Via del Babuino 119, Rome.
Not earlier than 8.3.1797 Introduces himself to Georg Zoëga.
May 1797 - 1804 Thorvaldsen supplements his meagre income by drawing figures for the English painter George Augustus Wallis’ landscapes; in some cases he painted directly on the paintings.
June - December 1797 Tyge Rothe, A225.
3.6.1797 - 1799 Rents a workshop in Vicolo delli Aliberti, which used to belong to the sculptor John Flaxman.
Presumably autumn 1797 A.P. Bernstorff, A208, reworked version of A856.
September - December 1797 Carlo Francesco Bassi, A631.
Beginning of October 1797 Spends eight days at Genzano with the Zoëga family.
Presumably winter 1797 - 1798 A.P. Bernstorff, marble, Brahetrolleborg, Fåborg.
18.12.1797 - 24.12.1797 Walking tour in the company of Fernow, Legation counsellor Bielfeld (17??-18??), Johann Jürgen Busch and the painter Johann Martin von Rohden around Rome to Albano, Genzano, Velletri, Cori, Palestrina and Tivoli.
31.12.1797 Arrested along with Carlo Francesco Bassi in connection with riots in the Piazza di Spagna. Released the same day with the help of Francesco Piranesi.
Presumably 1798 - 1804 Melpomene, copy after antique model, marble bust, Nysø.
January - June 1798 Bacchus and Ariadne, A1.
1.1.1798 Receives a document of protection from the Swedish diplomat Francesco Piranesi.
10.2.1798 The French army occupies Rome.
11.2.1798 Receives a passport issued by the Swedish legation in order to be prepared to flee if necessary.
15.2.1798 General Louis Alexandre Berthier (1753-1815) proclaims a Roman republic from the Capitoline Hill.
20.2.1798 Pope Pius VI is kidnapped and dies soon after at Valence in France.
Presumably 1.3.1798 - 1799 Residence at 25 Via Sistina, 3rd floor, Rome.
25.5.1798 The painter Asmus Jacob Carstens dies.
Not earlier than 25.5.1798 Thorvaldsen is appointed executor of the estate of Asmus Jacob Carstens’ and inherits some drawings.
Summer 1798 Sends crate from Rome to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen containing, among other artworks, the following for the judgment of the academy: Bacchus and Ariadne, A1 and Tyge Rothe, A225.
Not later than June 1798 Bacchus, colossal bust, probably a copy after an antique original, presumably modelled and cast in plaster, hardly carved in marble. Unknown location.
November 1798 Neapolitan troops drive the French army out of Rome.
29.11.1798 King Ferdinand I of Naples enters Rome.
December 1798 French troops drive the Neapolitans out of Rome.
End of 1798 Thorvaldsen’s crate with works and other things sent from Rome to the Academy of Fine Arts arrives in Copenhagen. The crate remains unclaimed at the custom house until the late summer of 1799.
1799 Homer, A751.
1799 Pollux, Dep.24.
1799 - 1800 Agrippa, A759.
1799 - 1800 Cicero, A760.
1799 - 1800 Cicero, A761.
1799 - 1800 The Goddess of Peace, unknown today.
25.2.1799 The Academy of Fine Arts extends Thorvaldsen’s travel grant for another year.
September 1799 Neapolitan troops reconquer Rome and drive out the French army.
30.9.1799 Bacchus and Ariadne, A1 is presented to the members of the Academy of Fine Arts.
November - December 1799 The Roman Republic fails, and the papacy is reinstated during the year 1800.
25.11.1799 The Academy of Fine Arts extends Thorvaldsen’s travel grant for another two years.
Presumably 1800 Melpomene, statue, probably plaster, destroyed by Thorvaldsen himself.
Presumably 1800 Venus and Cupid, A13.
1800 Edmund Bourke, A900.
1800 - May 1804 Residence at 141 Via Sistina, 2nd floor, close to Piazza Barberini, Rome.
January - October 1800 Raphael, A752
Not earlier than April 1800 - not later than October 1800 Begins the first clay model of Jason with the Golden Fleece, cf. A52.
1801 Achilles and Penthesilia, A777.
1801 Mathias Saxtorph, A899. Thorvaldsen left the execution of this bust to another sculptor.
5.2.1801 The Centaur Chiron teaching Achilles Medicin, drawing in the album of Johan Jacob Ekman, private collection.
Spring 1801 Models a portrait bust of Johan Jacob Ekman, location unknown.
Not later than 22.4.1801 The first clay model for Jason with the Golden Fleece, cf. A52, is completed.
Not later than 22.8.1801 Thorvaldsen destroys the first clay model of Jason with the Golden Fleece, executed 1800-1801. The model is unknown today (however, see A52).
October 1801 The sixth year of Thorvaldsen’s travel grant is paid out.
Spring 1802 Sends five crates to the Academy of Fine Arts by the frigate Triton. The crates contain marble busts, books, etc.
Summer 1802 Prepares his departure from Rome in order to return to Denmark.
June 1802 Postpones his departure from Rome. Plans to travel with Georg Zoëga to Denmark in the spring of 1803.
5.6.1802 J.L. Lund arrives in Rome and takes up residence at Palazzo Galloppi Volpi, 21 Via del Quirinale.
1.7.1802 Thorvaldsen’s travel grant from the Academy of Fine Arts officially expires.
Presumably autumn 1802 Begins making the clay model for Jason with the Golden Fleece, cf. A52.
Presumably November 1802 Makes the acquaintance of Caroline and Wilhelm von Humboldt.
9.11.1802 After having stayed south of Rome for about a month, Friederike Brun moves into Villa Malta in Rome with her daughter Ida.
10.12.1802 The frigate Triton arrives in Copenhagen with five crates from Thorvaldsen in Rome. The crates are placed at the custom house and remain unclaimed at least until the autumn of 1803.
24.12.1802 Celebrates Christmas Eve in Villa Malta at Caroline and Wilhelm von Humboldt in the company of Ida and Friederike Brun, Georg Zoëga, Carl Ludwig Fernow, Heinrich Keller, J.L. Lund, Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, Carl Gotthard Grass and Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch.
1803 Briseis and Achilles, A490.
Beginning of 1803 Herman Schubart arrives in Rome and meets Thorvaldsen, probably through Georg Zoëga.
28.1.1803 The clay model for Jason with the Golden Fleece is almost done. The model is seen by Friederike Brun, who then finances the original plaster cast, A52.
Presumably 19.3.1803 - 1815 Studio at 30 Vicolo della Catena, Piazza Barberini, Rome.
19.3.1803 Celebrating the making of the plaster cast of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52. Thorvaldsen is crowned with a laurel wreath by Ida Brun.
Not earlier than 19.3. - not later than 21.3.1803 Thomas Hope sees Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52, in the studio and commissions a marble version of the statue, A822.
Not earlier than 19.3. - not later than 21.3.1803 Thorvaldsen’s return to Denmark is temporarily postponed due to Thomas Hope’s commission for Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52, in marble, A822.
23.3.1803 Thorvaldsen receives the first part of the payment for Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822 from Thomas Hope.
23.3.1803 - August 1803 Finelli & Keller begin work on Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
23.3.1803 - August 1803 Makes a contract with the sculptors Finelli & Keller for the delivery of a block of marble and the execution of the rough carving of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
3.4.1803 Meets Friederike and Ida Brun in the Villa Borghese gardens. Asks Ida to perform artistic poses (attitudes) with the words “oh! just some poses” (“o kuns nogle Stillinger!”).
13.5.1803 Attends the farewell party for Friederike Brun in the company of many Roman notabilities.
Summer 1803 Thorvaldsen is taken ill.
Summer 1803 Spends the summer in Albano, probably in the company of Anna Maria Uhden.
10.6.1803 Friederike and Ida Brun leave Rome.
Presumably September 1803 Returns to Rome from his summer stay at Albano.
November 1803 Herman Schubart encourages his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann to promote Thorvaldsen’s cause in Copenhagen.
Presumably November 1803 - January 1804 Meets Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke.
November 1803 - January 1804 Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke, A212.
November 1803 - January 1804 Ivan Vorontsov?, A302.
November 1803 - January 1804 Jevdokija Ivanovna Golitsyna, cf. A304.
Winter 1803 - 1804 Meets the Russian Countess Irina Vorontsova in Rome.
1804 Ganymede Offering the Cup, A41.
Beginning of 1804 - April 1804 A.P. Bernstorff, A209.
1804 - 1805 Venus, marble, ca. 130 cm, National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania. Cf. the larger version A12.
1804 - March 1806 A.P. Bernstorff, A207, marble version of A209 in reduced size.
7.1.1804 Thorvaldsen’s mother Karen Thorvaldsen dies in Copenhagen.
9.2.1804 Thorvaldsen and Christian Hornbech receive H.M. Frisch and his wife Dorothea in the Piazza del Popolo on their arrival in Rome.
Spring 1804 Theodor von der Ropp commissions some marble busts after antique models. Later also Venus, cf. A12, and Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, both marble National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Spring 1804 The statues Bacchus, A2 and Ariadne are commissioned by Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke. The commission is later cancelled by Moltke for economic reasons.
6.3.1804 Receives a grant from Fonden ad usus publicos (The Foundation for the Support of Cultural and Social Purposes), thereby obtaining official acceptance of his continuance in Rome.
End of March 1804 Conducts a party on a tour of Rome to various artists, among them Angelika Kauffmann, Joh. Christian Reinhardt, and probably J.L. Lund.
5.4.1804 H.M. Frisch and his wife Dorothea visit Thorvaldsen’ studio and see Jason, A822, and Briseis and Achilles, A490.
Presumably not later than 10.4.1804 Employs the marble carvers Camillo Landini and Peter Kaufmann in his studio. J.L. Lund supervises the studio while Thorvaldsen is away.
Not earlier than 10.4. - not later than 19.4.1804 Travels from Rome to Naples together with Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke one day during this period.
Not earlier than 10.4. - not later than 19.5.1804 Spends at least one day and night at the ruins of Paestum with Christoph Heinrich Kniep.
Not earlier than 10.4. - not later than 19.5.1804 Attends an archeological dig at Pompeii with, among others, Christoph Heinrich Kniep, who makes a drawing of the visit.
May 1804 - 24.3.1844 Residence in the Roman pension Casa Buti, 46 Via Sistina, first floor.
20.5.1804 Travels from Naples to Rome.
20.5.1804 Passport issued for Leghorn in Rome.
Not earlier than 24.5.1804 Leaves Rome for Florence in the company of Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke.
June 1804 - beginning of July 1804 Stays in Florence, first in the company of Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke, then alone.
Not later than 2.7.1804 A studio is fitted up for Thorvaldsen by the Schubart family at Montenero near Leghorn.
Not earlier than 9.7. - not later than 16.7.1804 Travels to the Schubart family at Montenero and arrives not later than 16.7.1804.
Not earlier than 9.7. - not later than 6.8.1804 Herman Schubart, A718.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810 Apollon Belvedere, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810 Bacchus, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810 Cicero, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810 Homer, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810 Melpomene, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810 Sappho, presumably copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810 Venus Medici, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Begun 6.8.1804 Jacqueline Schubart, A719.
11.8.1804 Passport issued for a trip from Leghorn to Genoa and back.
Middle of August 1804 Travels with Herman Schubart to the marble quarries in Carrara and to Genoa.
End of August 1804 Selects blocks of marble at Carrara.
Autumn 1804 Outbreak of yellow fever in and around Leghorn.
Presumably 10.9.1804 Return to Montenero.
23.9.1804 Appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Accademia Fiorentina.
Completed not later than 24.9.1804 The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, plaster model for the relief, cf. A705, made for Jacqueline Schubart as a birthday present.
24.9.1804 Departure from Montenero.
25.9.1804 Travels from Leghorn bound for Rome in the company of Friedrich Matthäi.
Beginning of October 1804 Returns to Rome.
Completed December 1804 Bacchus, A2.
Presumably 1805 - 1806 Christoph August Tiedge, A851.
Presumably 1805 - 1806 Christoph August Tiedge, marble, whereabouts unknown.
Presumably 1805 - 1806 Elisa von der Recke, A852.
Presumably 1805 - 1806 Elisa von der Recke, A869.
1805 Apollo, A3.
1805 Conrad Rantzau, A211.
1805 A monument to Dante is commissioned for the church of St. Croce, Florence. The monument is never executed by Thorvaldsen but is given to the sculptor Stefano Ricci (1765-1837) in 1830, cf. the drafts C553r, C554, C555r og C555v.
1805 Begins a sculpture, Mars and Venus, later reworked as Mars Bringing Peace, cf. D174, which in turn becomes the starting point for Mars and Cupid, A7.
1805 - 1806 Conrad Rantzau, marble bust, Schloss Breitenburg, Holstein, cf. A211.
1805 - 1806 Christoph August Tiedge, A240.
1805 - 1806 Elisa von der Recke, A879.
Presumably 9.1.1805 Thorvaldsen’s friend, C.F.F. Stanley arrives in Rome and moves into Casa Buti.
Presumably spring 1805 Models a portrait bust of Caroline von Humboldt. The location of the original model is unknown, but the marble version was in Schloss Tegel, Berlin, until 1945, and is now at the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
Beginning of March 1805 C.F.F. Stanley proposes that Gotskalk Thorvaldsen be admitted to Vartov (an institution for the poor, sick and old) in Copenhagen.
26.4.1805 Andreas Weidenhaupt dies, and a professorship in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts becomes vacant.
6.5.1805 Thorvaldsen becomes a member of the Academy of Fine Arts and is nominated for the vacant post of professor of sculpture.
Summer 1805 Inquiry from the President of the USA, Thomas Jefferson, about the execution of a monument to Freedom. The negotiations do not result in a commission. Female figure in a Phrygian cap, C6r, might be a sketch for this monument.
Summer 1805 - March 1806 Herman Schubart, A219.
Summer 1805 - June 1806 Socrates, copy after an antique bust in Villa Albani, location unknown.
1.6.1805 Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is admitted to Vartov (an institution for the poor, sick and old) in Copenhagen.
7.6.1805 Christian 7. appoints Thorvaldsen professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts.
August - September 1805 The Baptism of Christ, A736, executed for Baptismal Font, A555,1.
August - September 1805 Preliminary work for, or a first version of Minerva and Prometheus, cf. A319.
August 1805 - March 1806 Jacqueline Schubart, A220.
Beginning of August 1805 Travels from Rome to Montenero via Florence and Leghorn in the company of Conrad Rantzau.
9.8.1805 Arrives at Montenero.
16.8.1805 Elected honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
Autumn 1805 Caroline von Humboldt, marble bust, Schloss Tegel, Berlin until 1945, now at the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
September 1805 - 26.4.1806 Camillo Landini finishes the statue Bacchus, probably lost, cf. A2.
11.9.1805 Leaves most likely Montenero this day with Christian Stub. Passport for Rome is issued in Leghorn.
Middle of September 1805 Travels to Pisa and visits Filippo Mazzei to discuss a possible commission for a monument to Freedom for the USA.
Middle of September 1805 Stays in Florence for two days in the company of Christian Stub.
19.9.1805 Passes through the town of Acquapendente, ca. 130 km north of Rome.
21.9.1805 Arrives in Rome.
Not earlier than 21.9.1805 Jupiter Otricoli, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
28.9.1805 Caspar Bartholin dies. Thorvaldsen takes his deathmask, which later is used as the model of the bust A227.
Middle of November 1805 The Danish painter C.F. Høyer arrives in Rome. He probably moves into Casa Buti at once.
18.11.1805 Thorvaldsen’s close friend C.F.F. Stanley dies.
20.11.1805 In the evening, C.F.F. Stanley is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. The grave is not known today.
Not later than December 1805 Draws Cupid with a Butterfly for Herman Schubart’s birthday, probably Dep.7.
Presumably 1806 Jacob Laurids Thrane, A881.
1806 Herman Schubart, A812.
1806 Jacqueline Schubart, A813.
1806 - February 1807 Hebe, A37.
14.1.1806 Attends the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome, but without Schubart’s presence.
14.2.1806 Requested to execute a design for a monument to the victory of the United States over Tripoli in 1805. The work is never commissioned.
12.3.1806 Thorvaldsen’s friend Christian Stub dies.
Presumably June 1806 Jacob Baden, A802.
Summer 1806 - summer 1807 The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, A705, unfinished.
Not later than June 1806 Apollon, copy after Apollon Giustiniani, marble, Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
June - September 1806 Jacob Baden, A863.
Autumn 1806 Psyche, A26.
Completed not later than 5.9.1806 Caritas, C820, given to Jacqueline Schubart on the occasion of her birthday 10.9.1806.
24.10.1806 Thorvaldsen’s father Gotskalk Thorvaldsen dies at Vartov (an institution for the poor, sick and old) in Copenhagen.
Presumably 9.11.1806 Andreas Dobert Kalleberg and Jacob Laurids Thrane leave Rome bound for Denmark.
Winter 1806 - 1807 Psyche, statue, marble, ca 130 cm, location unknown.
31.12.1806 C.F. Hansen commissions four reliefs for the facade of Christiansborg Palace that later become Hercules and Hebe, cf. A317, Hygieia and Aesculapius, cf. A318, Minerva and Prometheus, cf. A319, and Nemesis and Jupiter, cf. A320. He also commissions works, never completed, for the facade of the Copenhagen Town Hall and Courthouse.
1807 - 1808 Minerva and Prometheus, A319.
Not later than 14.1.1807 Bacchus Offering Cupid a Drink, C715, is executed for Herman Schubarts birthday.
14.1.1807 Takes part in the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome, arranged by Friedrich Matthäi, without Schubart’s presence.
February 1807 - 22.10.1808 Baptismal Font, marble version for the church of Brahetrolleborg, Funen, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4.
Spring 1807 Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow. Only known from Mori, op. cit..
Later reworked as Cupid Triumphant, A22.
April 1807 Tutors Ida Brun in drawing.
29.4.1807 Marcus Gerhard Rosencrone commissions a bust of his late father-in-law Henrik Hielmstierne. However, the bust is not modelled until probably 1812, cf. A210.
4.5.1807 Elected honorary member of the Accademia Italiana. It is uncertain whether the membership was confirmed.
Not earlier than June 1807 The Virgin with Jesus and John, A556, reworked version of relief on Baptismal Font, A555,2.
Not earlier than June 1807 - not later than 1808 Baptismal Font, A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4.
Not earlier than June 1807 - not later than 1808 Christ Blessing the Children, A737, maybe executed as a sketch for Baptismal Font, A555,4.
Not later than 6.6.1807 Jacob Laurids Thrane, Dep.36.
Not later than July 1807 Cupid and Psyche, A28.
21.9.1807 Thorvaldsen returns to Rome after a short stay in the country.
31.12.1807 The colony of German and Scandinavian artists in Rome celebrates New Year’s eve. Among those present are: Thorvaldsen, Rauch, Wahl, Bøhndel, Wagner, Welcker, Jollage, Hopfgarten, Eberhard, Dall’Armi, brødrene Riepenhausen, Kauffmann and J.L. Lund.
Presumably not later than 1808 A Genio Lumen (The Genius of Art and Light), A517, probably preparatory work for A518.
1808 A Genio Lumen (The Genius of Art and Light), A518.
1808 Adonis, A53.
1808 Wilhelm von Humboldt, A237.
1808 Makes drawings in collaboration with the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch for a sepulchral monument to the Briton William Sidney Bowles. The monument still stands in the Protestant cemetery [Cimitero Acattolico], Rome, parte antica, stone 16.
Not earlier than 1808 A Genio Lumen (The Genius of Art and Light), A828.
Not earlier than 1808 Adonis, A789.
Completed January 1808 The plaster model of Mars Bringing Peace is completed, cf. Ferdinando Mori’s drawing D174. This figure of Mars later formed part of the group Mars and Cupid, A7.
Not later than 14.1.1808 The drawing The Virgin with Jesus and John is executed for Herman Schubart’s birthday, private collection, Sanderumgaard, Funen.
14.1.1808 Herman Schubart’s birthday is celebrated in Thorvaldsen’s apartment in Rome, but without Schubart’s presence. The party is arranged by J.L. Lund.
6.3.1808 Elected member and professor at the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome.
Autumn 1808 Ludwig (1.) commissions Adonis, cf. A53, in marble, today at the Neue Pinakothek, München. The statue is not completed until October 1831.
Autumn 1808 Statuette of Vesta is executed for Herman Schubart’s birthday 14.1.1809, location unknown.
Middle of September 1808 Jacqueline and Herman Schubart visit Rome and Thorvaldsen for a couple of months.
Presumably November 1808 Hercules and Hebe, A317.
Presumably November 1808 Hygieia and Aesculapius, A318.
Middle of November 1808 Jacqueline and Herman Schubart leave Rome after two months’ stay.
Presumably 1809 Mercury Brings Bacchus to Ino, A346, reworked version of A347.
Presumably 1809 - 1810 Hercules and Hebe, A321, reduced version of A317.
Presumably 1809 - 1810 Hygieia and Aesculapius, A322, reduced version of A318.
1809 Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, A780.
1809 Cupid Riding on a Lion, A388.
1809 Mercury Brings Bacchus to Ino, A347.
1809 The Birth of Venus, A348.
1809 Ida Brun, A218.
1809 Sophie Dorothea Høyer, A228.
1809 Wilhelm Malte Putbus commissions more reliefs for his castle on the island of Rügen.
1809 Visits the Pantheon, Rome, and sees Gaspare Landi’s and Vincenzo Camuccini’s paintings for the church of San Giovanni in Canale, Piacenza.
Not earlier than 1809 Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, A417.
Not earlier than 1809 Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, A418, reworked version of A780.
14.1.1809 Organizes the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome, but without Schubart’s presence.
10.2.1809 Georg Zoëga, C761r, is portrayed on his deathbed.
10.2.1809 Georg Zoëga dies, Thorvaldsen is appointed one of the executors of the estate.
April 1809 Adam Oehlenschläger arrives in Rome and is introduced to Thorvaldsen by Georg Koës.
Summer 1809 Visits Friederike Brun in Albano and Oehlenschläger in Grottaferata.
4.6.1809 Nicolai Abildgaard dies at Sorgenfri (near Copenhagen). Thorvaldsen hears about his death for the first time in a letter from Herman Schubart, 27.7.1809.
8.6.1809 Crown Prince Ludwig 1. of Bavaria consults Thorvaldsen regarding acquisitions of antique works of art.
July 1809 Joseph Anton Koch proposes the publication of a book with engravings of Thorvaldsen’s works. The idea is abandoned by the end of 1809.
6.7.1809 Pope Pius VII is abducted from Rome.
Not later than 10.9.1809 The Virgin and Child, drawing, private collection, is given to Jacqueline Schubart on the occasion of her birthday.
16.9.1809 Appointed member of a commission for an official art exhibition in Rome, arranged by the French government.
October 1809 The archaeologist P.O. Brøndsted arrives in Rome and makes friends with Thorvaldsen.
Not later than 19.11.1809 Ida Brun, A810.
Completed December 1809 Hector with Paris and Helen, A499.
24.12.1809 Celebrates Christmas Eve in the house of the Riepenhausen brothers, with P.O. Brøndsted, Georg Koës and others. The Christmas party concludes with dancing.
Presumably 1810 Mars and Cupid, A7.
Presumably 1810 Nemesis and Jupiter, A324, reduced version of A320.
Presumably 1810 Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan’s Smithy, A419.
Presumably 1810 Alexandra von Dietrichstein, A238.
1810 Cupid Revives Psyche, A431.
1810 Caritas, A598.
1810 Nemesis and Jupiter, A320.
1810 Bertel Thorvaldsen, A223.
1810 Becomes friendly with Christian Daniel Rauch.
1810 Thorvaldsen is invited by the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm 3. to compete with the sculptor Antonio Canova for the execution of a monument to Queen Luise. Instead, Thorvaldsen passes on the commission to his pupil Christian Daniel Rauch. See Thorvaldsen’s sketch C182r, which may be connected with Luise’s monument.
Not earlier than 1810 Cupid with a Swan and Boys Picking Fruit, Summer, A410.
Not earlier than 1810 Cupid and Bacchus, A408.
Not earlier than 1810 Cupid and Bacchus, Autumn, A412.
Not earlier than 1810 Cupid Revives Psyche, A430.
Not earlier than 1810 Cupid Revives Psyche, A866.
Not earlier than 1810 Caritas, A597.
2.1.1810 Christian Daniel Rauch’s birthday is celebrated by Caroline von Humboldt. Among those present are; J.L. Lund and probably also Thorvaldsen.
Not later than 14.1.1810 Hygieia and Cupid, drawing, location unknown, is presented to Herman Schubart on the occasion of his birthday.
14.1.1810 Organizes the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome, but without Schubart’s presence.
28.1.1810 Awarded the Order of Dannebrog, which is forwarded to him by Herman Schubart.
Spring 1810 Mother with Child, receiving fruits from another woman, relief, location unknown.
Spring 1810 Goethe asks for a line drawing of one of Thorvaldsen’s sculptures through Caroline von Humboldt.
March 1810 Vincenzo Camuccini, A282.
Not earlier than April 1810 Vincenzo Camuccini, A281.
End of April 1810 P.O. Brøndsted and Georg Koës leave Rome heading for Greece.
Summer 1810 Thorvaldsen is probably ill.
28.7.1810 Probably attends the farewell party for J.L. Lund.
August 1810 - January 1816 Rents two workshops in Via dei Cappuccini near the intersection with Via della Purificazione.
8.8.1810 Passport for Leghorn issued in Rome.
11.8.1810 J.L. Lund leaves Rome, bound for Copenhagen, in the company of Friederike Brun and Ida Brun.
22.8.1810 Passport stamped in Florence on his way to Leghorn.
End of August 1810 Arrives at Montenero. The first part of the journey in the company of Ida and Friederike Brun.
Presumably September 1810 Cupid with a Swan and Boys Picking Fruit, Summer, A411.
Presumably September 1810 Cupid and Bacchus, Autumn, A413.
10.9.1810 Thorvaldsen gives Jacqueline Schubart the model of Cupid Revives Psyche, A431, for her birthday.
15.9.1810 Passport stamped in Leghorn in order to begin the journey back to Rome.
19.9.1810 Arrives at Florence.
22.9.1810 Probably meets Antonio Canova in Santa Croce in Florence to see the latter’s funerary monument to Vittorio Alfieri.
25.9.1810 Passport stamped in Florence. The journey back to Rome is probably via Siena in the company of Christian Daniel Rauch.
October 1810 Meets the Swedish sculptor Johan Niklas Byström in Rome.
October 1810 Encouraged by Friedrich Wilhelm 3. to compete with Canova to win the order for a funerary monument to the Prussian Queen Louise (1776-1810). Thorvaldsen, however, refuses to take part in the competition.
19.11.1810 J.L. Lund returns to Copenhagen from Rome.
1811 The brothers Riepenhausen and Ferdinando Mori publish a book with line engravings of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Presumably January 1811 The sculptures Venus with the Apple and Bacchus (probably versions of A12 and A2) are commissioned by Wilhelm Malte Putbus.
January 1811 Thorvaldsen suffers from inflammation of the eyes and rheumatism.
Presumably January 1811 - August 1811 Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow, statue, marble, location unknown. Commissioned by Theodor von Hahn. Only known from Mori, op. cit.
Not later than 14.1.1811 The Centaur Chiron teaching Achilles to shoot with the Bow, C780, is sent to Herman Schubart for his birthday.
31.1.1811 The brothers Rudolf and Wilhelm Schadow arrive in Rome.
Not later than 5.3.1811 Bertel Thorvaldsen, a version of A223, is commissioned by Hans West for the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
12.3.1811 Elected member of the Königliche Preussische Academie der Künste in Berlin.
April - December 1811 In Denmark Herman Schubart shows the book with line engravings of Thorvaldsen’s works by the brothers Riepenhausen and Ferdinando Mori.
22.5.1811 Reliefs and bust for the Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A700, A701, A702 and A703, are commissioned, and during the year F.W.J. Schelling and Thorvaldsen discuss the execution of the work in their correspondence.
Presumably summer 1811 A marble quarry with white marble is discovered in Norway.
Summer 1811 Peder Malling arrives in Rome.
July 1811 Thorvaldsen’s friendKratzenstein Stub leaves Rome.
28.8.1811 Elected honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Not later than 10.9.1811 The Virgin with Christ and John, Dep.4, is executed for Jacqueline Schubart’s birthday.
Middle of September 1811 His friend C.F. Høyer leaves Rome.
Not earlier than 9.10.1811 - beginning of November 1811 Convalescing at Ariccia with Marianna Rinaldi, probably with his son Carlo Alberto Thorvaldsen, who is also ill. The son died in 1811 possibly during this stay in Ariccia.
Winter 1811 - 1812 The Quirinal Palace is renovated for the expected arrival of Napoleon 1. during the summer of 1812.
Presumably 1812 Two Men on Horseback in the Train of Alexander the Great, A714.
Completed 1812 Sophie Dorothea Høyer, A763.
Not earlier than 1812 Alexander the Great in the Triumphal Chariot, A712.
Not earlier than 1812 Alexander the Great in the Triumphal Chariot, A713.
Not earlier than 1812 Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, A505, reworked version of A503.
12.2.1812 Elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Not earlier than March 1812 Alexander the Great in the Triumphal Chariot, A509.
March - June 1812 Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, plaster frieze, The Quirinal Palace, Rome, cf. A503.
March - June 1812 Plaster casts of Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, A503, are made on the initiative of Peder Malling.
17.5.1812 - 18.5.1812 A Whitsun excursion to Tivoli and the surrounding country in the company of Christian Daniel Rauch, Wilhelm Schadow and Ferdinand Ruscheweyh.
Presumably summer 1812 Henrik Hielmstierne, A210.
Not earlier than August 1812 - not later than 1819 Henrik Hielmstierne, marmorbuste, the Royal Library, cf. A210.
Presumably December 1812 Begins modelling the reliefs and the bust for Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A614,1, A614,2, A614,3 and cf. A703.
December 1812 Sketch drawn for Two Caryatids for Poland (possibly the pencil sketch in C115r).
1813 Caryatid, A55.
1813 Caryatid, A56.
1813 - 1816 Venus with the Apple, A916, reduced version of A12.
1813 - May 1816 Venus with the Apple, A12.
14.1.1813 Attends the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome but without Schubart’s presence.
9.3.1813 Thorvaldsen’s daughter Elisa is born probably on the 9th of March, the day after his Roman Birthday.
13.3.1813 The daughter Elisa Sophia Charlotte is baptized in San Marcello al Corso, Rome.
May - June 1813 P.O. Brøndsted returns to Rome.
May - July 1813 Thorvaldsen is taken ill with typhoid.
1.7.1813 Portrayed by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein in Rome, (black chalk, 28×21,2 cm, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden).
3.7.1813 C.W. Eckersberg arrives in Rome.
5.7.1813 C.W. Eckersberg moves into Casa Buti.
Not earlier than 9.7.1813 Leaves Rome heading for Montenero in the company of Herman Schubart. The dogs Perucca and Teverino are left in the care of Rudolf Schadow.
Middle of July 1813 Stays in Florence.
26.7.1813 Arrives at Montenero.
Not earlier than 17.8.1813 Travels to Bagni di Lucca (Baths of Lucca).
September 1813 The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, marble relief, cf. A341. Commissioned by Elisa Baciocchi in 1813, probably the copy made in 1829, location unknown.
September 1813 Giovanni Antonio Santarelli makes Thorvaldsen’s portrait in wax and later as a cameo for Sommariva.
September 1813 Models portrait bust of Pietro Benvenuti in Florence, location unknown. Marble version carved during 1814.
End of September 1813 Leaves Bagni di Lucca (Baths of Lucca).
End of September 1813 Travels to Florence at the invitation of Elisa Baciocchi in order to discuss commissions for works of art.
End of September 1813 The relief Virgil reads the Aeneid to Augustus, is commissioned by Elisa Baciocchi, probably never executed.
Not later than 16.10.1813 Returns to Montenero.
12.11.1813 Returns to Rome
25.11.1813 Dines at the house of the German officer Wilhelm Huth with the Danish architect Peder Malling, the German architect G.F. Hetsch and the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg.
31.12.1813 Celebrates New Year’s Eve at the house of the German officer Wilhelm Huth with the Danish architect Peder Malling, the German architect G.F. Hetsch, the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg and Baron Brown from Norway.
Presumably 1814 Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan’s Smithy, A420, reworked version of A419.
Presumably 1814 - 1820 Anna Potocka?, A251.
1814 Cupid Triumphant, A22.
1814 Monument to Johann Philipp Bethmann-Hollweg, cf. A615,1, A615,2 and A615,3.
1814 Nessus and Deianira, A481.
1814 Edward Pellew, A260. Two marble versions at Canonteign, Devon.
Not earlier than 1814 Nessus and Deianira, A480.
Not earlier than 1814 Woman Mourning, intended for the tomb of Johann Philipp Bethmann-Hollweg, A734.
14.1.1814 Deltager i fejringen af Herman Schubarts fødselsdag i Rom sammen med C.W. Eckersberg, Peder Malling og Wilhelm von Huth, men uden fødselarens tilstedeværelse.
28.1.1814 Awarded the Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies, N24.
5.2.1814 Jacqueline Schubart dies at Montenero.
Spring 1814 Pietro Tenerani is employed by Thorvaldsen.
26.3.1814 Monument to Jacqueline Schubart, A618, is requested by Herman Schubart.
6.4.1814 Member of a commission on the Farnese collection with, among others, Antonio Canova, Massimiliano Laboureur and Antonio d’ Este.
Not later than 11.4.1814 Monument to Jacqueline Schubart, C1075r, drawing, draft for a monument.
24.5.1814 Humility, statue, Sant’Angelo Bridge, Rome. Temporarily installed to mark the return of Pope Pius 7. to Rome.
Not later than 2.7.1814 Monument to Jacqueline Schubart, A704, is being executed in marble.
Not later than 24.7.1814 Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A700, A701, A702 and A703, is finished in marble.
8.8. - 8.9.1814 C.W. Eckersberg paints his famous Portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen, today at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
12.10.1814 Elected honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
25.11.1814 Fanny Caspers and Thorvaldsen meet for the first time in the sculptor’s studio during Casper’s first visit to Rome.
Winter 1814 - 1815 John Russell commissions two reliefs (cf. A490 and A492) and a portrait statue of Georgiana Elizabeth Russell (cf. A173). All three works are in marble, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England.
Winter 1814 - 1815 The bust Georgiana Elizabeth Russell, A315, is executed, presumably as a model for the portrait statue of the same, cf. A173.
31.12.1814 Celebrates New Year’s eve at the house of Wilhelm Huth with Peder Malling, G.F. Hetsch, C.W. Eckersberg and Baron Brown.
Presumably 1815 Day, A370.
Presumably 1815 Seated Lady with a Boy, A170.
Presumably 1815 Seated Lady, A168.
Presumably 1815 Seated Lady, A169.
Presumably 1815 - 1816 Maria Aleksejevna Narysjkina, A248.
Presumably 1815 - 1816 William Bentinck, A261. Marble bust at Welbeck Abbey, North Nottinghamshire.
Presumably 1815 - 1819 The Genii of Life and Death, A158.
Begun 1815 Hebe, A875.
1815 Catharina di Branciforte, A276.
1815 Georg Wilhelm Wilding, A275.
1815 Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja, A167.
Not earlier than 1815 Day, A902.
Not earlier than 1815 Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, A733.
Not earlier than 1815 Night, A901.
Beginning of 1815 Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector’s Body, A492.
1815 - October 1819 Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja, marble statue, The State Herimitage Museum, St. Petersburg (cf. A167).
Not later than 8.1.1815 Portrait Bust of Pietro Benvenuti, marble, 71 cm, today on Benvenuti’s tomb in San Lorenzo, Florence. Probably executed by Giovanni Antonio Santarelli.
18.1.1815 In the Teatro Argentina with Samuel Rogers and others.
6.5.1815 John Russell sends the first instalment of the payment for Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector’s Body, cf. A492.
Presumably summer 1815 Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, marble, Church of Brahetrolleborg, Funen, is shipped from Leghorn and arrives in Copenhagen in the autumn.
Summer 1815 Night, A369.
29.7.1815 Thorvaldsen and C.W. Eckersberg accompany Wilhelm Huth and his family together with Peder Malling and G.F. Hetsch, who are all leaving Rome, as far as La Storta just outside Rome.
Autumn 1815 Several of Thorvaldsen’s works are shown at Charlottenborg on the occasion of the coronation of Frederik 6.’s, among others Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, in marble and several portrait busts.
September 1815 J.L. Lund leaves Copenhagen on his way to Rome.
13.9.1815 Attends the funeral service of Virginio Bracci in San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio.
3.10.1815 Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja commissions the relief Victoria garlands a Fallen Warrior. The relief is unknown today. The drawings C135r, C136, C197r and C204v are probably sketches related to the relief.
6.10.1815 Gives the painter C.W. Eckersberg a gold ring with a precious antique sapphire, with an engraving of Cupid and Bacchus, cf. A797.
10.10.1815 Encouraged by Edmund Bourke to participate in an open competition for the execution of a monument to fallen generals, but refuses.
10.10.1815 Goes on a short trip to Tivoli in the company of C.W. Eckersberg.
13.10.1815 Returns to Rome.
17.10.1815 Goes on a short trip to the towns of Albano and Ariccia near Rome in the company of C.W. Eckersberg.
22.10.1815 Returns to Rome.
4.11.1815 Elizabeth Cavendish visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop in order to see the Aeginetes. There, she meets Charles Robert Cockerell and Johan David Åkerblad.
14.11.1815 Thorvaldsen expands and rebuilds his studio in Vicolo della Catena/Vicolo delle Colonnette.
14.11.1815 - 1844 Workshops at 20 Vicolo delle Colonnette, Piazza Barberini, Rome. Today the street is called Vicolo Barberini.
Presumably 1816 Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, are commissioned in marble by Richard Bingham. The marble reliefs are in Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California.
Presumably 1816 Perhaps models portrait bust of Nikolaj Nikititj Demidov. Marble versions at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and at the Nízhni Tagil Museum in the Urals.
Presumably 1816 - 1817 Anne Bingham?, A308.
Presumably 1816 - 1817 Elizabeth Vernon?, A311.
Presumably 1816 - 1817 Georgiana Bingham?, A313.
Presumably 1816 - 1819 Unknown, A292.
Presumably 1816 - 1819 Unknown, A306.
Presumably 1816 - 1819 Unknown, A314.
Presumably 1816 - 1819 Models a portrait bust of a Valletort, executed in marble not later than 1819. The bust is unknown today.
1816 Ganymede Filling the Cup, A42.
1816 Monument for Jozefa Borkowska, A621.
1816 Hebe, A39.
1816 Hebe, A870, reworked version of A37.
1816 The Dance of the Muses on Helikon, A341.
1816 Catharina di Branciforte, A891.
1816 Georg Wilhelm Wilding, A890.
1816 Mary Ann Montagu, A267.
1816 Michael Coronini-Cronberg, A301.
1816 - presumably 1820 Hebe, A874.
2.1.1816 Lunch with C.W. Eckersberg.
30.1.1816 J.L. Lund returns to Rome, visits Thorvaldsen, and moves in at Casa Buti.
Spring 1816 Alexander Baillie, A262.
Spring 1816 Hans Carl Knudtzon, A231.
Spring 1816 Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon, A230.
Middle of March 1816 Probably attends a party with a Norwegian theme, possibly on the occasion of the two Norwegians, Jørgen Knudtzon’s and Hans Carl Knudtzon’s departure from Rome 19.3.1816.
Not later than 15.3.1816 Jørgen Knudtzon and Alexander Baillie commission the marble relief Cupid and Bacchus, cf. A408. He receives the relief in Trondheim in 1817 (today in the University Museum at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim).
Not later than 15.3.1816 Jørgen Knudtzon and Alexander Baillie commission the marble relief Hector with Paris and Helen, cf. A499. He receives the relief in Trondheim in 1817 (today in the University Museum at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim).
Not later than 15.3.1816 Jørgen Knudtzon and Alexander Baillie commission the marble relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan’s Smithy, cf. A419, today at Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire.
19.3.1816 Jørgen and Hans Carl Knudtzon (and in all probability also Alexander Baillie) leave Rome.
5.4.1816 Gives a collection of engravings as a present to C.W. Eckersberg.
6.4.1816 Wlodzimierz Potocki, cf. A155, is commissioned in marble by Anna Potocka.
Beginning of May 1816 Ganymede Filling the Cup, A43.
12.5.1816 Farewell party C.W. Eckersberg organized by J.L. Lund. Many German artists are present, and probably also Thorvaldsen.
Completed 12.5.1816 C.W. Eckersberg, A224.
13.5.1816 C.W. Eckersberg leaves Rome. Early in the morning Thorvaldsen and others, among them Johan Niklas Byström and J.L. Lund, accompany him as far as Nero’s Tomb outside Rome.
Summer 1816 William Haldimand commissions a portrait bust of himself. The bust, if executed at all, is unknown today.
Summer 1816 - summer 1817 Restores the marble sculptures from the temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, for Ludwig 1. of Bavaria in a studio on Via del Corso close to Piazza del Popolo.
Not earlier than summer 1816 Richard Bingham”:/personer/bingham-richard commissions the first marble copy of Venus with the Apple, cf. A12. Today at Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California.
20.7.1816 Member of a commission to evaluate the antique works of art purchased for the papal collections with Antonio Canova among others.
3.9.1816 Elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia.
Presumably not later than 1817 Dancing Girl, A778.
Presumably not later than 1817 Shepherd Boy, A755, preparatory work for A177.
Presumably 1817 Henry Thomas Hope?, A266.
Presumably 1817 - 1818 Giovanni Battista Sommariva, A272.
Presumably 1817 - 1818 Giovanni Battista Sommariva, A273.
Presumably 1817 - 1818 Marie Louise Playdeux?, A310.
Begun 1817 - completed 1819 Thomson Henry Bonar, A893.
Begun not earlier than 1817 George Granville Leveson Gower, cf. A259, marble bust, location unknown.
1817 Bacchante, Nysø33.
1817 Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, A44.
1817 The Graces, A30, preparatory model for the statue, A29, on which work then begins.
1817 Edward Divett, A263.
1817 George Granville Leveson Gower, A259.
1817 Harriet Frances Pellew, A309.
1817 Louisa Hope, A264.
1817 Thomas Hope, A298.
Not earlier than 1817 Adrian John Hope, A826.
Not earlier than 1817 Giovanni Battista Sommariva, A741.
Not earlier than 1817 Thomas Hope, A823.
January - June 1817 Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, A45.
14.1.1817 The relief frieze The Life of Christ is commissioned in plaster by Crown Prince Ludwig 1. of Bavaria. The relief frieze, which was later commissioned in marble, is unknown today. The drawings C190, C191r, C191v, C193 and C194 may be drafts of the frieze.
20.1.1817 John Russell asks Thorvaldsen to complete Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector’s Body, cf. A492.
Not earlier than 20.1.1817 - not later than 1.5.1818 Georgiana Elizabeth Russell, cf. A173, is completed in marble. Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England.
23.1.1817 Guillaume Bertrand-Favre commissions a marble version of Ganymede, cf. A43.
Spring 1817 Monument to Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, A619.
Spring 1817 Nicolaus Esterházy, A293.
Spring 1817 Herman Schubart visits Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Spring 1817 Nicolaus Esterházy commissions Dancing Girl, cf. A178 and Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, in marble.
Spring 1817 A group of Thorvaldsen’s friends and colleagues ask Henri Francois Brandt to execute a medal in honour of the sculptor. The medal, F1, shows Thorvaldsen’s portrait and the relief A genio lumen, cf. A518.
7.3.1817 Initial contact regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, A124, A125, A126, and A249.
Presumably 17.3. - 7.6.1817 Henri François Brandt, A241.
22.3.1817 Elected member of the Roman Academy of Archaeology.
29.4. - 20.5.1817 George Gordon Byron, A257.
2.5.1817 The Ponte Molle Society arranges a triumphal procession for Johann Martin von Wagner at a tavern outside Porta Salaria, Rome. Thorvaldsen is probably present.
3.5.1817 Monument to Thomas Maitland is commissioned (bust in plaster, A258, and relief, A600).
Not earlier than 20.5.1817 George Gordon Byron, A717.
25.5.1817 Thorvaldsen postpones his departure for Denmark owing to John Russel’ls commission.
Summer 1817 The Three Marys at the Tomb, relief, probably plaster, destroyed by Thorvaldsen. See D154 and the drawing C191r.
Summer 1817 Clemens Metternich orders Day, cf. A370, and Night, cf. A369.
Middle of June 1817 Departure for Siena and Florence. Accompanied to La Storta by friends, Anna Maria Uhden, and his daughter Elisa.
15.6.1817 Shows Caroline von Humboldt the marble sculptures from the temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, that are being restored in a workshop near Piazza del Popolo and are almost finished.
Completed 5.7.1817 Dancing Girl, A178.
Autumn 1817 Consults Rasmus Emil Bruun and Albrecht Schønberg about his tuberculosis.
6.9.1817 Tsar Alexander 1., who is also King of Congress Poland, approves the placement of a planned equestrian statue of the Polish General Józef Poniatowski in the Saxon Garden (Ogród Saski), which still exists behind the Saxon Castle (Pałac Saski) in central Warsaw.
Completed October 1817 Shepherd Boy, A177.
Not earlier than October 1817 Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, cast in bronze by Jollage & Hopfgarten. The statue was bought by Friedrich Wilhelm 3., present location unknown.
2.11.1817 Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, is inaugurated in the church of Brahetrolleborg, Funen with songs by B.S. Ingemann and a speech by Børge Henrik Knap.
December 1817 Giovanni Battista Sommariva visits Thorvaldsen in his studio.
31.12.1817 Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, A505, is commissioned in marble by Giovanni Battista Sommariva.
31.12.1817 Frances Mackenzie is recommended to Thorvaldsen by Arthur Judd Carrighan.
End of 1817 The Goddess of Hope, A47.
Presumably 1818 Alexander the Great in the Triumphal Chariot, A504, a variation of A503.
Presumably 1818 Anne Newburgh, A889.
Presumably 1818 Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte?, A635.
Presumably 1818 Models bust of Francis Basset, later executed in marble; unidentified.
Presumably 1818 - 1819 Caspar Bartholin, A227.
1818 Christ at Emmaus, A562.
1818 Cristino Rasponi, A297.
1818 Jane Craufurd, A307.
1818 Karl von Seinsheim?, A290.
1818 Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A250, preparatory work for A171.
1818 Wilhelmine Benigna Biron, A720.
1818 Wilhelmine Benigna Biron, A811.
1818 A marble version of Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, is commissioned in Rome by A.F. Madlira. Private collection, today on permanent loan at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A.
Not earlier than 1818 Christ Assigns the Leadership of the Church to Saint Peter, A564.
Not earlier than 1818 Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte?, A726.
1818 - completed 1819 Jane Craufurd, A898.
1818 - 1827 Fragments of the Alexander Frieze, A831 - A850, previously Christiansborg Palace, partly destroyed by fire in 1884.
1818 - January 1819 Christ Assigns the Leadership of the Church to Saint Peter, A565.
Not earlier than January 1818 Thorvaldsen, Sommariva and a Greek Warrior, A738.
February 1818 The Goddess of Hope, A47, is commissioned in marble by Caroline von Humboldt.
Presumably spring 1818 Monument to Anthony James Radcliffe, cf. A622 and A740, is commissioned.
Presumably spring 1818 George Agar Ellis commissions works, including Briseis and Achilleus, cf. A490, Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370) in marble, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.
Spring 1818 Mercury about to Kill Argus, A868, preparatory model for A5.
Spring 1818 George Agar Ellis, A299.
Spring 1818 Ludwig (1.), A233.
Spring 1818 Ludwig sees Adonis, cf. A53, in Rome. Marble statue, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
Spring 1818 The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, cf. A602, is commissioned for the monument to Andrea Appiani.
Spring 1818 Catches a cold and is taken ill with fever on a trip to Tivoli.
Spring 1818 Probably models Veronica Zauli Guarini, plaster bust, location unknown today.
Spring 1818 Attends the flower festival at Genzano with, among others, J.L. Lund and Herman Schubart.
March 1818 - end of September 1818 Herman Schubart stays with Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Not later than 10.3.1818 Begins modelling a portrait bust of Gustav von Ingenheim, but the bust is probably never finished.
11.3.1818 Peder Hjort, Poul Godske von Bertouch-Lehn and Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom arrive in Rome.
21.3.1818 Receives a commission for a marble sculpture of Ferdinand 1.. The sculpture is never completed.
April 1818 Luigi Bienaimé is employed in Thorvaldsen’s studio.
4.4.1818 Christian (8.) Frederik commissions plaster copies of all Thorvaldsen’s works for the study collection of the Academy of Fine Arts.
6.4.1818 Thomas Hope sends Thorvaldsen a reminder for Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
Not later than 22.4.1818 Negotiations concerning the commission for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, are initiated by Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen.
28.4.1818 Thorvaldsen is fêted in Rome by a party of Danes.
29.4.1818 Attends a farewell party for Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria, together with 86 artists, writers, scientists, etc. The party was in Villa Schultheiss outside Porta del Popolo. The hall had been decorated by the Nazarenes and J.L. Lund.
3.5.1818 Hermann Ernst Freund arrives in Rome.
5.5.1818 Visits the Vatican in the evening to see the sculptures in the company of Jørgen Koch and Herman Schubart.
17.5.1818 At an evening party in Palazzo Caffarelli on the occasion of Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen’s son, Heinrich Georg Bunsen’s (1818-?) baptism.
27.5.1818 Jørgen Koch moves into Casa Buti.
Summer 1818 - August 1818 Is ill and recuperates in Albano, nursed by Frances Mackenzie.
June 1818 Models another bust of Caroline von Humboldt, as the first from 1805 was not satisfactory. Location unknown.
5.6.1818 Thorvaldsen er til middag hos Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen i Palazzo Caffarelli på Kapitol i anledning af Bunsens yngste barns dåb, jf. Maurer, op. cit.
Not later than 11.6.1818 Atanazy Raczyński commissions a marble copy of Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A41, finished spring 1821, today in the National Museum Poznań, Polen.
Presumably 12.6.1818 - 14.7.1819 Woman Ascending to Heaven, above the Genius of Death, A625, probably a variation of Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s wife, A624.
12.6.1818 Stanislaus de Chaudoir commissions a monument to his late wife Aloisia de Chaudoir fromThorvaldsen, cf. Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s wife, A624.
Not earlier than 12.6.1818 - not later than 14.7.1819 Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s Wife, A624.
Not later than 13.6.1818 Mercury about to Kill Argus, A5.
Presumably 15.6.1818 - 30.6.1818 Caroline von Humboldt poses twice for Thorvaldsen, who, to her disappointment, only spends two hours each time modelling a new portrait bust of her.
15.6.1818 Frederik 6. commissions Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A503, in marble for Christiansborg Palace.
Not later than July 1818 Ivan Ivanovitj Barjatinskij visits Thorvaldsen’s studio and commissions the marble statue of Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A171.
8.7.1818 A preliminary contract for the equestrian statue Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, A124, A125, A126, and A249, is signed in Rome by Thorvaldsen and Leon Potocki.
Completed not later than 30.7.1818 The marble version of Monument to Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, cf. A619, is finished. Today the work is in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milano.
August 1818 Travels to Naples and visits Procida, Ischia, Capri and Sorrento in the company of Frances Mackenzie, Henriette Herz, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom among others.
4.8.1818 Signs a contract with Ivan Ivanovitj Barjatinskij for the execution of Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A171.
8.8.1818 Thorvaldsen delivers a drawing (unidentified today) of Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, to Vincenz Rüttimann as an initial sketch of the monument.
Not later than 27.8.1818 The version of Goddess of Hope, cf. A47, commissioned by Caroline von Humboldts, is begun in marble. Today at Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
Autumn 1818 Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A172.
Autumn 1818 Thomas Maitland, A258, and Minerva, Truth and Lie, A600.
September - October 1818 At general Laval Nugent and his wife Giovanna Nugent’s place in Napoli, Thorvaldsen studies an arabic horse, which Józef Poniatowski has ridden, and makes sketches for a model of the horse, A125, which is later integrated into the equestrian statue, cf. A123.
Not earlier than September 1818 - not later than 1821 Giovanna Nugent, A239, is commissioned and modelled.
13.9.1818 Elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara.
Beginning of October 1818 Travels from Naples to Rome.
9.10.1818 B.S. Ingemann and Frederik Schmidt arrive in Rome.
10.10.1818 B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt and H.F.J. Estrup visit Thorvaldsen in his workshop in Rome.
11.10.1818 B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt and H.F.J. Estrup visit Thorvaldsen in his home in Casa Buti. Later they go to his workshop as the day before.
Not later than 17.10.1818 Mercury about to Kill Argus, A5, is cast in plaster.
Not later than 17.10.1818 Caroline von Humboldt commissions a plaster cast of Mercury about to Kill Argus, A5.
Completed not later than 25.10.1818 Minerva, Truth and Lie, A600.
End of October 1818 The King of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand 1. visits Thorvaldsen in his workshop.
7.11.1818 Visit from B.S. Ingemann and Frederik Schmidt in his workshop.
9.11.1818 About this date, Franziska Caspers arrives in Rome with Princess Maria Leopoldina Grassalkovich de Gyarak.
Winter 1818 - 1819 François Gabriel de Bray commissions his bust, cf. A300, and the plaster cast A721, together with Night, cf. A369 and Day, cf. A370,
3.12.1818 Visit from Frederik Schmidt. Later that evening at the Caffè Greco, then a musical gathering, and finally at the Caffè Nuovo.
12.12.1818 Visit from Frederik Schmidt. Thorvaldsen complains about the biography that he has to write for the College of Arms.
15.12.1818 The American politician and governor Edward Everett commissions six plaster casts of the bust of Lord Byron, cf. A717.
24.12.1818 Christmas Eve at Thorvaldsen’s with Danes and Norwegians in Rome, among others, B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt, Jørgen Knudtzon, Alexander Baillie, Jens Jacob Keyser, H.F.J. Estrup, J.L. Lund, Hermann Ernst Freund, Catharina Maria Bügel, Peder Hjort. Thorvaldsen prepares the Christmas rice pudding.
A song by Ingemann is sung.
25.12.1818 Christmas “service” at Thorvaldsen’s place attended by all the Danes in Rome. Frederik Schmidt delivers the sermon.
26.12.1818 Supper at Jørgen Knudtzon’s with, among others, B.S. Ingemann and H.F.J. Estrup.
29.12.1818 Thorvaldsen adjusts Hermann Ernst Freund’s bust of B.S. Ingemann (modelled 1818, marble 1820 at the New Carlsberg Glyptothek).
31.12.1818 New Year’s eve at Catharina Maria Bügel’s with the other Danes in Rome.
End of 1818 Wilhelmine Benigna Biron, A312.
Presumably 1819 Cupid with his Bow, A36, reworked verison of Georgiana Elizabeth Russell, A173.
Presumably 1819 Cupid with his Bow, A819.
Presumably 1819 - 1825 Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A171.
1819 Cupid with the Lyre, A786.
1819 Fru von Krause A244.
1819 Józef Poniatowski, A249.
1819 - completed 1823 Hebe, A875.
1819 - 1822 Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, marble version, The State Herimitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
1819 - 1825 Christ Assigns the Leadership of the Church to Saint Peter, cf. A565, marble relief, Villa Poggio Imperiale, Florence.
January 1819 Horse, first model, half size, of the horse of the monument to Józef Poniatowskis, A123, probably plaster, location unknown.
2.1.1819 Supper at Jørgen Knudtzon’s with, among others, Jens Jacob Keyser and Frederik Schmidt.
3.1.1819 Evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence. Among those present are B.S. Ingemann, J.L. Lund and Frederik Schmidt.
6.1.1819 Thorvaldsen shows Franziska Caspers and Maria Leopoldina Grassalkovich de Gyarak round the Vatican Museum by torchlight.
7.1.1819 Evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence. Among those present are H.F.J. Estrup and Frederik Schmidt.
8.1.1819 Dinner with Katherine Sophie de Bray in the company of Franziska Caspers, Henriette Herz and one Antonelli (unidentified).
Completed not later than 9.1.1819 Model for the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, preliminary version of A123. The model is not known today, but descriptions indicate that both forelegs of the horse were raised.
14.1.1819 Evening party at the Sciarra restaurant with, among others, Hermann Ernst Freund, C.A. Jensen, and Herman Schubart, whose birthday is celebrated.
20.1.1819 Thorvaldsen is ill and receives a visit from Jørgen Knudtzon, Alexander Baillie, and Frederik Schmidt.
21.1.1819 Thorvaldsen is feeling better and receives a visit from Frederik Schmidt, who brings him two new poems.
28.1.1819 Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated by the Danes in Rome at the Trattoria Armelino around C.A. Jensen’s drawing of the king. Songs by Frederik Schmidt and B.S. Ingemann are sung.
Later in the evening, the party continues at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence.
28.1.1819 P.O. Brøndsted arrives in Rome.
28.1.1819 Elected member of Skydeselskabet (The Royal Shooting Society), Copenhagen.
31.1.1819 A visit from B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt, H.F.J. Estrup and P.O. Brøndsted. Herman Schubart’s financial situation is discussed.
1.2.1819 Frederik Schmidt visits Thorvaldsen and his workshop in the company of some Englishmen.
4.2.1819 Attends a merry evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence. B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt, P.O. Brøndsted, N.C. Lunzi, C.A. Jensen and others are present.
5.2.1819 Visits Frederik Schmidt.
11.2.1819 Moonlight excursion to the Colosseum and the church S. Gregorio, probably S. Gregorio Magno al Celio with, among others, P.O. Brøndsted, N.C. Lunzi, Hermann Ernst Freund, C.A. Jensen, Frederik Schmidt and Catharina Maria Bügel. The party continues at the home of the latter.
14.2.1819 Evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence with, among others, Frederik Schmidt and Jørgen Knudtzon.
17.2.1819 Evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence with, among others, Frederik Schmidt and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
18.2.1819 Visit from Jørgen Knudtzon, Alexander Baillie and Frederik Schmidt.
19.2.1819 J.L. Lund invites all the Danes in Rome to see his collection of drawings after old Italian paintings, collected while travelling in Umbria and Toscana. Thorvaldsen is probably present.
20.2.1819 Evening party at Jørgen Knudtzon’s place with, among others, B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt and H.F.J. Estrup. Later they went to Catharina Maria Bügel’s house.
21.2.1819 “Service” at Thorvaldsen’s place attended by the Danes in Rome. Frederik Schmidt delivers the sermon.
21.2.1819 Party at P.O. Brøndsted’s place with the Danes in Rome. At midnight to the carnival at the Teatro d’Aliberti. Thorvaldsen provides a Pulcinella doll for Frederik Schmidt.
23.2.1819 Organizes and takes part in a birthday party for Caroline von Humboldt. On this occasion, he presents her with a plaster cast of Cupid with the Lyre, cf. A786. Today at Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
24.2.1819 The day before his departure to Naples, Frederik Schmidt takes leave of Thorvaldsen, who gives him a copy of the medal F2 and some engravings of the Alexander Frieze, Night and Day.
Spring 1819 Jurij Aleksándrovitj Golóvkin, A288.
March 1819 Thorvaldsen has a fever and cannot work.
1.3.1819 Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A503, is commissioned in plaster by Eugène de Beauharnais.
9.3.1819 Attends a party on the occasion of Franziska Caspers’ name day at Louise Seidler’s Roman apartment and places a garland on Caspers’ head.
12.3.1819 Dinner at the house of Torlonia in the company of P.O. Brøndsted, A.C. Gierlew and Peder Hjort.
Not later than 21.3.1819 A marble version of Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, is begun. This is probably inv.no A873, finished 1822.
29.3.1819 At a party in Frascati, the host, Christian Carl Friedrich August toasts the engagement of Thorvaldsen and Frances Mackenzie, much to Thorvaldsen’s dissatisfaction.
Completed April 1819 Completes the original model of Cupid and the Graces, A29.
April 1819 Christian Carl Friedrich August, A204.
April 1819 Friedrich August Emil, A206.
April 1819 The committee, Adam Czartoryski, Stanisław Mokronowski and Alexander Linowski, sign the preliminary contract for the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, A124, A125, A126, and A249 (signed in Rome by Thorvaldsen and Leon Potocki 8.7.1818).
2.4.1819 Attends a birthday dinner for Jacob Brønnum Scavenius at The Ermine in Piazza di Sciarra in the company of Peder Brønnum Scavenius, Jacob Fibiger, P.O. Brøndsted, N.C. Lunzi, Hermann Ernst Freund, Peder Hjort, B.S. Ingemann, C.A. Jensen and Rud Bay.
3.4.1819 Clemens Metternich visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
3.4.1819 An exhibition with German and Nordic artists opens in Palazzo Caffarelli in Rom. Thorvaldsens The Graces and Cupid, cf. A29, was featured in the catalogue, but not exhibited.
12.4.1819 Emperor Francis 1. of Austria visits Thorvaldsen’s studios.
13.4.1819 Peder Brønnum Scavenius visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
21.4.1819 or 24.4.1819 Franziska Caspers and Fyrstinde Grassalkovich leave Rome bound for Naples.
27.4.1819 Peder Brønnum Scavenius visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
27.4.1819 Attends a wild party in La Storta, about 15 km north of Rome, on the occasion of the departure of the duke and the prince of Augustenborg from Rome. The party was arranged by Herman Schubart.
Not later than May 1819 A plaster cast of Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, commissioned by Christian Daniel Rauch, is finished in Rome. Present location unknown.
Begun May 1819 The model of Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), A119, is begun.
2.5.1819 Caroline von Humboldt and her children leave Rome in the rain. At the same time, Henriette Herz and several others leave the city. They are accompanied part of the way by the Buti family and all the artists in Casa Buti, including Thorvaldsen, in five small carriages.
2.5.1819 Frances Mackenzie leaves Rome after Thorvaldsen finally has broken with her.
5.5.1819 Talks to P.O. Brøndsted about his relationship with Frances Mackenzie.
7.5. - 10.5.1819 Participates in a trip to the Alban Hills accompanied by Conrad Rantzau, Cai Verner Ahlefeldt, Frederik Carl Emil von Scholten, Jørgen Conrad de Falsen, J.L. Lund, C.A. Jensen, Hermann Ernst Freund, Peder Brønnum Scavenius og Jacob Fibiger. They visit Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Palazzolo, Rocca di Papa, Monte Cavo, Ariccia, Lake Nemi, Marino, Grottaferrata, Frascati, Tusculum and Monte Porcio Catone.
12.5.1819 Peder Brønnum Scavenius visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
21.5.1819 Franziska Caspers and Fyrstinde Grassalkovich stop briefly in Rome on their return from Naples before they leave Italy for Vienna.
Not later than 25.5.1819 The head of the colossal bust Thomas Maitland, cf. A258, is cast in bronze by Jollage & Hopfgarten for the monument to Maitland. The bust was lost during the Second World War.
27.5.1819 Listens to the poem Helge (written 1814) by Adam Oehlenschläger, read by Brøndsted.
28.5.1819 B.S. Ingemann’s birthday is celebrated at Palazzo Sciarra by Thorvaldsen, Peder Brønnum Scavenius and others.
June 1819 The Annunciation, relief, probably plaster, location unknown, cf. D153.
Beginning of June 1819 Thorvaldsen models the bust of Clemens Metternich, cf. A234.
10.6.1819 Awarded the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown (third class) by Frans 1.
Not later than middle of June 1819 Attends the floral fête “Infiorata” in Genzano with P.O. Brøndsted, Conrad Rantzau, and N.C. Lunzi.
Beginning of July 1819 Spends a few days in the country.
Completed 3.7.1819 Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), A119.
14.7.1819 Begins the journey to Denmark in the company of J.L. Lund and Conrad Rantzau.
14.7.1819 Crosses Ponte Centeno on the border of Tuscany.
14.7.1819 Passes Acquapendente c. 150 kilometers north of Rome.
14.7.1819 - 16.12.1820 Freund and Tenerani take care of Thorvaldsen’s studios in his absence.
15.7.1819 Visits Enrico Mocenni in Siena with, among others, Conrad Rantzau and Jørgen Conrad de Falsen.
16.7.1819 Arrives in Florence.
17.7.1819 - 5.1.1822 Dancing Girl, cf. A178, is being carved in marble in Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
22.7.1819 Leaves Florence.
22.7.1819 Arrives in Bologna. Stays the night at the hotel Pellegrino.
23.7.1819 Arrives at Parma. Stays the night at Albergo del Pavone. Sees Correggio’s fresco The Revelation of John, 1520-23, in the cupola of San Giovanni Evangelista.
Presumably not later than 24.7.1819 Caroline von Humboldt’s plaster casts of Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, and Cupid with the Lyre, cf. A786, are shipped from Rome. Today at Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
24.7.1819 Passes Piacenza.
25.7.1819 Arrives in Milan. Stays at hotel Reichmann on Corso di Porta Romana.
2.8.1819 A small model of the monumentet Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. the cast of the large model, A119, is sent from Rome, bound for Lucerne.
Not later than 3.8.1819 Thorvaldsen makes the acquaintance of Anselmo Ronchetti in Milan.
3.8.1819 Departure from Milan.
3.8.1819 Visits the town of Saronno to see fresco paintings by Bernardino Luini (c. 1480-c. 1532).
3.8.1819 Arrives in Sesto Calende. Stays overnight.
4.8.1819 Passes Domodossola.
4.8. - 5.8.1819 Arrives at the Simplon pass. Presumably stays the night in the village Simplon.
7.8.1819 The large model of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is sent from Rome, bound for Lucerne.
7.8.1819 Passes the Rhône bridge at Saint-Maurice in Switzerland and probably spends the night at the nearby hotel de l’Union at Bex.
8.8.1819 Arrives in Vevey. Probably stays overnight at the Hôtel des Trois-Couronnes.
10.8.1819 Arrives in Bern. Probably stays overnight at the hotel Krone. Sees the Bern Minster.
11.8.1819 Passes Zofingen in the night.
12.8.1819 Arrives in Lucerne and stays overnight at the inn Der Falke.
12.8.1819 In the company of Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen Thorvaldsen visits the place where the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is to be erected.
13.8.1819 Arrives in Zürich and stays overnight at the inn Schwerdt.
14.8.1819 Arrives at Schaffhausen and spends the night at the inn Krone. Sees the waterfalls of the Rhine.
15.8.1819 Arrives at Tuttlingen, Germany, just north of the Swiss-German border.
15.8.1819 Arrives at Hechingen and spends the night at the unidentified inn The Post. Wascherrin.
16.8.1819 Arrives in Stuttgart via Waldenbuch, where Johann Nepomuk Zwerger gets a lift in Thorvaldsen’s carriage.
Lodges at the hotel König von England, just near the Schillerplatz.
Not earlier than 16.8.1819 Visits Johann Heinrich von Dannecker’s studio in Stuttgart.
Presumably 17.8. - 21.8.1819 Attends a party given by Dowager Duchess Louise of Württemberg in Stuttgart, where he praises the collection of paintings owned by Sulpiz Boisserée, Melchior Boisserée and Johann Baptist Bertram.
Presumably 17.8. - 21.8.1819 Studies the brothers Melchior and Sulpiz Boisserée’s and Johann Baptist Bertram’s collection of German and Netherlandish medieval and Renaissance paintings.
19.8.1819 Pankraz Eggenschwyler starts hollowing out the cliff face in Lucerne, where the monument Dying Lion (the Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is to be erected.
21.8.1819 Evening party at the house of Johann Baptist Bertram in the company of Dannecker, Cotta, Rapp and one Dr. Lindner.
21.8.1819 Leaves Stuttgart for Heidelberg late in the evening.
22.8.1819 Arrives in Heidelberg and spends the night there at the hotel Zum König von Portugal.
22.8.1819 Meets Christian Carl Friedrich August on his arrival in Heidelberg. Large party at the inn Zum König von Portugal.
Presumably 24.8.1819 Arrives in Frankfurt via Darmstadt. Lodges at the hotel Zum Weißen Schwan at the Goetheplatz.
Not earlier than 25.8.1819 Visits the Bethmann-Hollweg family in Frankfurt.
28.8.1819 Participates in a celebration of Goethe’s 70th birthday in Frankfurt a.M. Discusses a possible monument to Goethe with Sulpiz Boisserée.
30.8.1819 Leaves Frankfurt.
30.8.1819 Arrives at Mainz. Lodges at the inn Zum weissen Ross.
Presumably 31.8.1819 Continues his journey to Koblenz. Stays overnight.
Presumably 1.9. - 4.9.1819 Short stay in in Bad Ems. Meets Prince Christian (8.) Frederik for the first time.
Presumably 4.9.1819 Travels via Andernach to Bonn. Spends the night at the Sternhotel.
Presumably 5.9.1819 Arrives in Köln. Lodges at Hotel Kaiserlicher Hof, Breitestraße 36.
Presumably 5.9. - 7.9.1819 Sulpiz Boisserée shows Thorvaldsen the Cologne Cathedral. Meets here unexpectedly Caroline von Humboldt and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker.
Presumably 8.9.1819 Leaves Cologne.
10.9.1819 Passes Osnabrück.
Presumably 13.9.1819 Arrives in Hamburg and lodges at the Hotel St. Petersburg.
Presumably 14.9. - 17.9.1819 Meets for the first time Conrad Hinrich Donner in Altona.
Presumably 18.9.1819 Leaves Hamburg.
Presumably 18.9.1819 Arrives at Breitenburg, Conrad Rantzau’s castle. Rantzau is absent. Probably spends the night here.
19.9.1819 Passes Rendsburg.
20.9.1819 Arrives in Schleswig early in the morning. Sees the Hans Brüggemann altar in the cathedral. Is celebrated at a meal by the lawyer Christian Friedrich Jasper (1786-1847). Schack von Staffeldt proposes a toast. Stays overnight.
21.9.1819 Travels from Schleswig to Flensburg. Meets the widow of Johann Heinrich Wulffen. Stays overnight.
22.9.1819 Departs from Flensburg to the manor Sandjerg visiting Ludvig Detlev Reventlow (1780-1854). Drives on to Sønderborg to stay there overnight.
23.9. - 27.9.1819 Ophold ved hoffet på Augustenborg hos prinsesse og hertuginde Louise Augusta.
27.9.1819 Sails to Bøjden on the island of Funen, sees the altar painting by Eckersberg in Horne Church.
27.9. - 29.9.1819 Visit the Reventlow family at Brahetrolleborg and Arreskov.
Presumably 28.9.1819 Sees his own Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, in the church of Brahetrolleborg and the altar painting by J.L. Lund in Øster Hæsinge church.
29.9.1819 Visits Johan Bülow at Sanderumgaard, his estate near Odense. Continues to Nyborg staying there overnight.
30.9.1819 Crosses the Great Belt from Nyborg to Korsør.
30.9. - 2.10.1819 Visits F.A. Holstein at Holsteinborg Manor in Zealand.
October 1819 - 1821 Clemens Metternich, A234.
Not later than 2.10.1819 Minerva, Truth and Lie, cf. A600, and the lower part of the bust of Thomas Maitland, cf. A258, are cast in bronze by Jollage & Hopfgarten for the monument to Thomas Maitland. The bust was lost during the Second World War, the relief is in the Byzantine Museum of Zakynthos.
3.10.1819 Arrives in Copenhagen for the first time since 30.8.1796.
3.10.1819 - 11.8.1820 Residence and studio at Charlottenborg, 1 Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen.
4.10. - 7.10.1819 Receives daily visits from Peder Horrebow Haste at Charlottenborg.
5.10.1819 Takes up his post as professor of modelling at the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
6.10.1819 Thorvaldsen is congratulated on his return to Denmark by a deputation of students.
9.10.1819 Tilbringer sandsynligvis aftenen i Friederike Bruns hjem i Bredgade, København.
10.10.1819 Celebration at Moltke’s picture gallery (det Moltkeske maleri-galleri) in Bredgade, Copenhagen, with a speech by Niels Henrik Weinwich. Several artists and government officials participate.
11.10.1819 Party at the Royal Shooting Society.
13.10.1819 Borups Selskab (The Dramatic and Literary Society, Borup’s Society) celebrates Thorvaldsen’s return to Denmark. Three songs dedicated to Thorvaldsen are sung.
14.10.1819 Attends Princess Vilhelmine’s admittance to the Royal Shooting Society. Meets Jens Kragh Høst again.
16.10.1819 A sumptuous celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour at The Royal Shooting Range with several hundred participants, speeches, songs, and the firing of cannons.
Begun 19.10.1819 - completed 9.6.1821 Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s wife, cf. A624, is carved in marble.
20.10.1819 Is godfather to Waldemar Henrik Rothe’s son, Frode Rothe (1818-1846), Vartov Church, Copenhagen.
27.10.1819 Attends a celebration in the masonic lodge Friedrich zur gekrönten Hoffnung. A song dedicated to Thorvaldsen is sung.
30.10.1819 Attends a celebration in the society Clio of Queen Marie Sophie Frederikke’s birthday. The poet Jens Baggesen recites a tribute poem.
End of October 1819 The two original models for Dying Lion (The Lucerne LIon), cf. A119, arrive separately at Lucerne. Today the models are in the Historisches Museum Luzern.
8.11.1819 Thorvaldsen’s first meeting with the Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady regarding commissions for the decoration of the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.
12.11.1819 Appointed acting Councillor of State [virkelig etatsråd]. In the evening participates in a Royal banquet given by Frederik 6.
14.11.1819 Christian (8.) Frederik asks Thorvaldsen to model busts of the royal family.
24.11.1819 At the invitation of A.W. Hauch, Thorvaldsen attends the meeting of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, where he receives new commissions, among others a Christ, cf. A82, for Christiansborg Palace Church.
Winter 1819 - 1820 Caroline, A193.
Winter 1819 - 1820 Frederik 6., A191.
Winter 1819 - 1820 Marie Sophie Frederikke, A192.
Winter 1819 - 1820 Vilhelmine, A194.
Winter 1819 - 1820 Frederik (7.), A199.
23.12.1819 Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie arrive in Rome with their retinue.
25.12.1819 Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen’s studio in Rome. Returns to the studios several times during his stay in the city.
27.12.1819 Slotsbygningskommissionen (Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace) commissions Christ, cf. A82, in marble for Christiansborg Palace Church. The statue was later placed in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen instead.
The 1820s Ganymede Offering the Cup, A854.
Presumably 1820 Youth with a Dog, A185, possibly a preparatory work for John the Baptist Preaching, (A59-A70), modelled 1821-1822 and placed as a pediment above the main entrance of The Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen (today remade in bronze).
Presumably 1820 Chimneypiece, A735.
Presumably 1820 The Cumaean Sibyl, A58.
Presumably 1820 The Erythraean Sibyl, A57.
Presumably 1820 Three Cupids, A592.
1820 The Baptism of Christ, A557.
1820 The Baptism of Christ, A730.
1820 The Institution of the Eucharist, A558.
1820 Three Hovering Angels, relief, plaster. Mounted as a frieze in the cupola of Christiansborg Palace Church, Copenhagen (cf. drawings: C221r and C222).
1820 Alexander 1., A246.
1820 Frederik 6., A859.
1820 Marie Sophie Frederikke, A860.
Not earlier than 1820 Caroline, A857.
1820 - 1821 Boy with a Dog, A76.
1820 - 1821 Reclining Shepherd, A79, preparatory model for A70.
1820 - 1821 Reclining Shepherd, A80, first preparatory model for A70.
1820 - 1821 Mother with her Son, A75.
1820 - 1821 Mother with her Child, A77, preparatory model for A69.
1820 - 1821 Mother with a Sleeping Child, A78, first preparatory model for A69.
1820 - 1821 Roman Warrior, A71.
1820 - 1821 Seated Jew, A72.
1820 - 1821 Seated Man, A81, preparatory model for A72.
1820 - 1821 Youth, A74, preparatory model for A60.
1820 - 1821 John the Baptist, A73, preparatory model for A59.
1820 - 1821 Caroline Amalie, A198.
1820 - 1821 Caroline Amalie, A754.
1820 - 1823 Cupid and the Graces, A894.
1820 - 1824 A small copy of Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A503, is being executed as a cameo by Clemente Pestrini.
1820 - 1828 Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, marble, Draper’s Hall, London.
6.1.1820 Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo delle Colonnette.
6.1.1820 Christian (8.) Frederik writes from Rome to Thorvaldsen in Copenhagen, requesting him to consider a funerary monument to Abildgaard.
6.1.1820 Commission for the building of the Church of Our Lady considers whether a statue of Christ, cf. A82, by Thorvaldsen can be placed in the Church of Our Lady instead of Christiansborg Palace Church.
15.2.1820 Godfather to Maria Liebenberg in Copenhagen.
Spring 1820 Visits Roskilde Cathedral and then appeals to Frederik 6. for the completion of C.F. Harsdorff’s chapel.
Presumably completed March 1820 Monument to Anthony James Radcliffe, cf. A622 og A740.
15.3.1820 Otto v. Huhn encourages Thorvaldsen to make a sketch for a monument to freedom in honour of Alexander 1. Thorvaldsen, however, does not make the monument.
Begun 28.3.1820 - completed 7.8.1821 Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is carved from sandstone rock in Lucerne by Lucas Ahorn.
4.4.1820 The Baptism of Christ, cf. A557, and The Institution of the Eucharist, cf. A558, are commissioned in marble by a society represented by Adam Wilhelm Moltke and Nicolai Holten. Today in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.
10.4.1820 Attends a farewell party for the poet C. Pram with Baggesen, Rahbek, Oehlenschläger, Ingemann, Jens Kragh Høst, and others.
20.4.1820 Thorvaldsen suggests Frederik 6. a drastic restructuring of some royal institutions, which among other things shall release some more space to the Academy’s collection of plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s works.
22.4.1820 Frederik 6. approves the placement of a statue of Christ, cf. A82, by the altar in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen instead of an altarpiece by J.L. Lund.
May 1820 A series of sculptures for the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen: Christ, cf. A82, and the pediment above the main entrance of the church John the Baptist Preaching, cf. A59-A70, and the 12 apostles, cf. A86-A109, are commissioned in plaster.
6.5.1820 Elected honorary member of Die Frankfurtische Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der nützlichen Kunste.
Not earlier than 11.5.1820 - not later than 12.8.1821 Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, for Christian 8.’s Table Decoration is cast by Wilhelm Hopfgarten.
23.5.1820 Is godfather to J.P. Mynster’s son, Christian Ludvig Nicolai Mynster (1820-1883), in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.
Summer 1820 Christian Molbech spends three weeks in Rome, staying at the Casa Buti. Visits Thorvaldsen’s workshops.
Not earlier than 13.6. - not later than 17.6.1820 J.C. Dahl begins his journey from Dresden to Italy.
18.6.1820 Sulpiz Boisserée commissions a relief frieze for a monument to Goethe. The frieze, however, which was to depict Goethe’s poem Hermann and Dorothea, is never executed.
28.6.1820 Farewell party at The Royal Shooting Range with the participation of the authorities of Copenhagen.
7.7.1820 Borups Selskab (The Dramatic and Literary Society, Borup’s Society) gives a farewell party to Thorvaldsen before his departure to Italy. Two songs dedicated to Thorvaldsen are sung.
24.7. - 7.8.1820 J.C. Dahl’s first visit to Rome.

Lodgings at Caffè Greco, excursion to Tivoli, visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop and meets G.E. Freund, C.A. Jensen, C.C. Vogel, and others.

Not later than 10.8.1820 Peter Wilhelm Kolderup Rosenvinge, A915.
10.8.1820 Farewell audience with Frederik 6., who presents Thorvaldsen with a snuffbox with his portrait, N39.
11.8.1820 Departure af 2.30 p.m. from Copenhagen for Italy in the company of Simon Christian Pontoppidan.
A group of friends follows along to Roskilde Kro at Vridløselille.
11.8.1820 Stops in Køge and takes leave with C.F. Høyer and Christian Hornbech, who catch him by surprise there.
11.8.1820 Arrives in the evening at Gisselfeld Manor at the Danneskiold-Samsøe family.
12.8.1820 During his stay at Gisselfeld he attends the celebration of the betrothal of Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe and the Duke of Augustenborg Christian Carl Friedrich August.
13.8.1820 Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe, A216, is modelled at Gisselfeld.
13.8.1820 Arrives in the evening at Nysø Manor for the first time. Stays for the night.
14.8.1820 Conrad Danneskiold-Samsøe, A214, is modelled at Nordfeld.
14.8.1820 Arrives at Nordfeld Manor on the island of Møn. Stays overnight.
15.8.1820 Visits Liselund and presumably also a part of the Cliffs of Møn. Back to Nordfeld.
16.8.1820 Probably arrives at Klintholm invited by H.F.J. Estrup, and stays overnight.
17.8.1820 Visits the Cliffs of Møn accompanied by H.F.J. Estrup. Probably back to Nordfeld for the night.
18.8.1820 Leaves Nordfeld. Travels via Grønsund and the island of Falster to the manor Søholt at the town of Maribo. Stays with the von Bertouch family.
19.8.1820 At Søholt Manor.
20.8.1820 Banquet at Henning Wichfeld at Engestofte Manor. Later back to Søholt.
20.8.1820 Goes in the evening from Søholt to Pederstrup Manor to visit Christian Ditlev Reventlow for a couple of days.
21.8.1820 Visits bishop Peter Outzen Boisen (1762-1831) in Vesterborg and count Carl Ludvig Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs (1780-1838) at Juellinge Manor (Halsted Kloster) in the company of Reventlow.
22.8.1820 At Pederstrup.
23.8.1820 From Pederstrup back to Søholt.
24.8.1820 From Søholt to Nysted in the evening. Crosses the Baltic Sea. After a violent storm the boat is rescued to Rostock by a couple of pilots.
25.8. - 26.8.1820 In Rostock, and sees the Monument to field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher by Johann Gottfried Schadow, inaugurated the year before 26.8.1819.
29.8.1820 Arrives in Berlin.
29.8. - 3.9.1820 Besøger både den Giustiniani’ske og Solly’ske malerisamling i Berlin i selskab med Aloys Hirt.
29.8. - 3.9.1820 Visits Königlich Preußische Eisengießerei and meets the French bronze caster François Léquine, who is probably working on the big Kreuzberg-Denkmal (1818-1821).
29.8. - 3.9.1820 Stays in Berlin in the company of Christian Daniel Rauch for five days. Visits the workshops of Rauch, Christian Friedrich Tiecks and Johann Gottfried Schadows værksteder. Sees Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s newly built Schauspielhaus.
29.8. - 3.9.1820 During Thorvaldsen’s stay in Berlin, several parties are given in his honour.
3.9.1820 Leaves Berlin via Potsdam, where he participates in a farewell party with the most prominent artists of Berlin.
6.9.1820 Arrives at Dresden late in the evening.
7.9.1820 Visits the picture gallery (Gemäldegalerie) in Dresden in the morning, the collection of antiques in the afternoon, and spends the evening, probably in the house of Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853).
8.9.1820 Visits the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden again (cf. 7.9.1820) and other collections.
9.9.1820 Attends a lecture by Karl August Böttiger. In the afternoon another visit to the Gemäldegalerie (cf. 7.9.1820 and 8.9.1820), but this time alone. Sees the opera Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra by Gioachino Rossini in the evening accompanied by Louis Philippe de Bombelles.
10.9.1820 Celebration party in the evening at the painter Friedrich Matthäi. At 10 o’clock he is cheered by the students of the Academy of Fine Arts with music, torchlight procession, and a speech.
11.9.1820 Spends the day with Franz Pettrich and meets again with Karl August Böttiger in Dresden.
12.9.1820 Leaves Dresden.
15.9.1820 Arrives at Breslau (today Wrocław) and visits the Steffens family.
16.9.1820 Leaves Breslau / Wrocław.
19.9.1820 Arrives in Warsaw. Housed by Stanisław Mokronowski.
19.9.1820 Thorvaldsen’s arrival in Warsaw is celebrated by the members of the academy of art and the professors at the university.
Not earlier than 20.9.1820 - not later than 20.10.1820 In Warsaw, Angelica Catalani sings for Thorvaldsen and the viceroy of Poland, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich (1779-1831), brother to Alexander 1.
30.9.1820 Nicolaus Copernicus, cf. A113, is commissioned by La Societé Royale des Amis des Sciences et des Belles lettres in Warszaw.
5.10. - 14.10.1820 In Warsaw Alexander 1., A715 poses for his portrait.
15.10.1820 Alexander 1. modtager Thorvaldsen i audiens i Warszawa som tak for portrættet, A715. Har dagen før modtaget en ring fra kejseren.
16.10.1820 På museum med Wiktor Maksymilian Ossolinski. Om aftenen til hofbal.
21.10.1820 Thorvaldsen leaves Warsaw in the company of Paweł Maliński and Simon Christian Pontoppidan.
23.10.1820 Arrives in Cracow and lodges probably at the Hôtel au Providence.
24.10.1820 Takes a short trip to Wieliczka and visits the famous salt mine.
In the evening, in the theatre in Kraków.
Not earlier than 24.10. - not later than 28.10.1820 Probably visits the place where the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków was built.
26.10.1820 Attends a concert in Cracow.
28.10.1820 Leaves Cracow.
30.10.1820 Arrives in Troppau / Opava during the congress of Troppau.
Not earlier than 30.10. - not later than 2.11.1820 Meets with Franz 1. and Alexander 1. during the congress of Troppau.
31.10.1820 Monument to Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg (sketch A120) is commissioned by Frans 1. for Troppau / Opava. The monument was never executed.
31.10.1820 In the theatre in Troppau / Opava with Paweł Maliński and Simon Christian Pontoppidan.
Not earlier than November 1820 - not later than October 1821 Drawings for the Monument to Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg, C250r, C251, C252, C253.
1.11.1820 Again in the theatre in Troppau / Opava.
2.11.1820 Leaves Troppau / Opava.
5.11.1820 Arrives in Vienna, and lodges at the hotel Zum Erzherzog Karl in Kärntnerstrasse 31.
6.11.1820 Franziska Caspers and Thorvaldsen meet in Vienna. The first of many.
8.11.1820 The floor in one of Thorvaldsen’s studios in Rome collapses. The original model of Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, cf. A45, is smashed, and marble versions of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177 and Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, are damaged.
13.11.1820 Visits Prince Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen’s collection of prints in what is today the Albertina Museum in Vienna.
14.11.1820 Visits Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Vienna.
17.11.1820 Visits Harrachsche Gemäldesammlung, Schönbornsche Gemäldegalerie and the art collection of Moritz Christian Fries in Vienna.
18.11.1820 Visits Schönbrunn. In the evening in the theatre.
19.11.1820 Thorvaldsen’s 50th birthday. Goes to the theater in Vienna with Paweł Maliński and Simon Christian Pontoppidan.
Presumably 24.11.1820 At a party at Nicolaus Esterházy Thorvaldsen is informed of the accident in his Roman studio 8.11.1820. He changes his plans and heads directly for Rome two days later.
24.11.1820 Visits St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. Climbs the tower.
Later in the theater with Maliński and Pontoppidan.
26.11.1820 Leaves Vienna.
26.11.1820 Arrives at Wiener Neustadt. Stays overnight.
Visits St. George’s Church.
1.12.1820 Christian Frederik and his retinue arrive in Rome after a long stay in the area around Naples.
2.12.1820 Arrives at Mestre via Leoben, Villach and Udine. Stopover in Mestre.
3.12.1820 Arrives in Venice, and lodges at the Hôtel d’Angleterre.
3.12.1820 Visits the Doge’s Palace and St Mark’s Basilica. In the evening at the theater.
4.12.1820 Visits the Venetian Arsenal, the two churches San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore, and also Gallerie dell’Accademia.
5.12.1820 Leaves Venice and arrives once again in Mestre.
5.12.1820 Reaches Padua. Goes to the theater, and stays overnight.
6.12.1820 Arrives in Verona. Stays overnight. Visits the amphitheatre and some churches the next day.
7.12.1820 Arrives in Mantua and stays overnight. Visits Palazzo del Te the next day.
9.12.1820 Arrives at Bologna. Stays overnight. Visits the next day the art collection in Accademia Nazionale di Belle Arti di Bologna.
10.12.1820 Arrives in Faenza. Stays overnight.
11.12.1820 Travels through Cesena and Rimini; spends the night at Cattolica at the shore of the Adriatic Sea.
12.12.1820 Christian (8.) Frederik rides out (in vain) to meet Thorvaldsen, who is on his way to Rome.
13.12.1820 Arrives – via Pesaro, Fano and Acqualagna – at Nocera Umbra. Stays overnight.
14.12.1820 Arrives – via Foligno and Spoleto – at Terni. Stays overnight. Ses the waterfalls Cascata delle Marmore.
15.12.1820 Travels via Civita Castellana to Nepi. Stays overnight.
16.12.1820 Arrives back in Rome after his sojourn in Denmark 1819-1820.
16.12.1820 Has tea in the evening with Christian (8.) Frederik and the Duchess of Westmoreland, Jane Fane (1775-1857).
Not later than 17.12.1820 The monument to Thomas Maitland is erected on the island of Zante (cf. the portrait bust, A258, and the relief, A600).
17.12.1820 Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsens workshops and views the damages after the collapse of a floor. Afterwards, he has dinner with Thorvaldsen and other Danes in Rome.
21.12.1820 Thorvaldsen and Claus Christian Bang have dinner with Christian (8.) Frederik.
24.12.1820 Celebrates Christmas Eve with Christian (8.) Frederik and other Danes in Rome, among others Claus Christian Bang. They have rice pudding, exchange gifts, and play lotto.
28.12.1820 Begins the modeling of Caroline Amalie, A716, in Palazzo Negroni.
28.12.1820 Celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour in the Palazzo Fiano, Piazza di San Lorenzo, with, among others, Prince Christian (8.) Frederik.
30.12.1820 Celebrates another Christmas Eve at Claus Christian Bang’s place in the company of other Danes. Carl Otto has written a song of welcome to Thorvaldsen.
30.12.1820 Works on Caroline Amalie’s bust, A716, in Palazzo Negroni.
31.12.1820 Celebrates New Year’s Eve with Ludwig (1.) of Bavaria. The guests are Johann Martin von Wagner, Joseph Anton Koch, Philipp Veit, Ferdinand Ruscheweyh, Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz, Johann Nepomuk Ringseis and Thorvaldsen. The party ends at 2 a.m.
Presumably 1821 George Agar Ellis, cf. A299, marble bust, Holdenby House, Northampton.
Presumably 1821 Giovanni Battista Sommariva, A274.
Presumably 1821 - 1824 Anne Bingham?, cf. A308, marble bust, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Presumably 1821 - 1824 Georgiana Bingham?, cf. A313, marble bust, unknown location.
1821 Apollinaris, A186.
1821 Nicolaus Copernicus, A858.
1821 Alexander 1., A883.
1821 Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg, A725.
1821 Monument to Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg, A120.
1821 - 1822 A Boy, A65, is modelled by Giuseppe Tenerani after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
1821 - 1822 Pharisee, A66, is modelled by Giuseppe Pacetti after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
1821 - 1822 Old Scribe, A63, is modelled by Joseph Hermann after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
1821 - 1822 Reclining Shepherd, A70, is modelled by Giuseppe Tenerani after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A79.
1821 - 1822 Hunter, A67, is modelled by Nicolò Marchetti after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
1821 - 1822 Reclining Youth, A64, is modelled by either Luigi Bienaimé or Pietro Antonio Bienaimé after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
1821 - 1822 Mother with her Son, A62, is modelled by Carlesi after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A75.
1821 - 1822 Father with his Son, A61, is modelled by Giuseppe Pacetti after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
1821 - 1822 Youth, A60, is modelled by either Angelo Bienaimé or Francesco Bienaimé after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A74.
1821 - 1822 John the Baptist, A59, is modelled by Luigi Bienaimé after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A73.
1821 - 1822 Two Children, A68, is modelled by Bernardo Tacca after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
1821 - 1824 Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, new marble version without the hat, Prado, Madrid.
1821 - 1844 The Italian draughtsman Leonardo Camia draws several of Thorvaldsen’s works for use in graphic reproductions.
2.1.1821 Dinner with Christian (8.) Frederik, with Claus Christian Bang, P.O. Brøndsted, Carl Otto and Jacob Svitzer.
7.1.1821 Shows Christian (8.) Frederik round in the Vatican Museum, where they admire the Roman marble statue of Apollo Belvedere, among others.
7.1. - 13.1.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
17.1.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik meets the Russian general Alexander Ivanovich Osterman-Tolstoy in Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
Completed not later than 24.1.1821 Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg, A236.
27.1.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen in his workshop.
28.1.1821 Celebrates Frederik 6.s birthday in Christian (8.) Frederik’s Roman residence in the company of nobelmen and artists.
1.2.1821 Dinner with Christian (8.) Frederik, with Vincenzo Camuccini, C.F. Rumohr and Luigi Godard.
5.2.1821 Bibliothek der Deutschen is founded in Rome on the initiative of Johann David Passavant, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, August Kestner and Ernst Zacharias Platner. Thorvaldsen and Hermann Ernst Freund were among the 58 co-founders.
7.2.1821 J.C. Dahl returns to Rome, and Thorvaldsen buys some paintings (in Thorvaldsen’s collection of pictures there are several works by J.C. Dahl, see B177 - B189).
22.2.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen, who is working on the marble version of Ludwig (1.), cf. A233.
Presumably 23.2.1821 - 26.2.1821 Thorvaldsen and Rudolf Schadow model, while other artists draw the beautiful Vittoria Caldoni in Franz Ludwig Wilhelm von Reden’s home in Rome, cf. Vittoria Caldoni, A279.
25.2.1821 Dinner with Christian (8.) Frederik, with Vincenzo Camuccini, C.F. Rumohr, Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudissin, Friederica Juliane von Baudissin and Otto Friedrich Magnus von Baudissin.
Not earlier than March 1821 - not later than 1822 Mother with her Child, A69, is modelled by Carlesi after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A77. The bust of the mother is modelled after Vittoria Caldoni, A279.
2.3.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik proposes other work for Hermann Ernst Freund as compensation for the lost commission for the Apostles. Thorvaldsen promises to set to work at once on Christ, cf. A82, and the twelve Apostles for the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, cf. A86, A87, A89, A91, A93, A96, A98, A99, A101, A103, A105, A108.
2.3.1821 - 19.3.1821 Christ, A83, preparatory work for A82.
2.3.1821 - 19.3.1821 Christ, A84, preparatory work for A82.
2.3.1821 - 19.3.1821 Christ, A85, preparatory work for A82.
2.3.1821 - 19.3.1821 Paul, A104, preparatory work for A103.
2.3.1821 - 19.3.1821 Peter, preliminary work for A86.
17.3.1821 - 26.12.1822 Cupid, cf. A22, is being carved in marble in Thorvaldsen’s workshop, including repairs after the collapse of the floor 8.11.1820. Today, the sculpture is in Vienna City Hall, Feststiege 1.
19.3.1821 Thorvaldsen has modelled Christ, cf. A82, and the apostles Peter, cf. A86 and _Paul, cf. A103, in clay.
Not earlier than 19.3.1821 James the Less, A92, preparatory work for A91.
Not earlier than 19.3.1821 John, A90, preparatory work for A89.
Not earlier than 19.3.1821 Matthew, A88, preparatory work for A87.
Not earlier than 19.3.1821 Simon Zelotes, A102, preparatory work for A101.
Not earlier than 19.3.1821 Thomas, A97, preparatory work for A96.
22.3.1821 Soirée with Christian (8.) Frederik, with Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudissin, Friederica Juliane von Baudissin, Otto Friedrich Magnus von Baudissin, Franz Ludwig Wilhelm von Reden, Elisa von Reden and the Riepenhausen brothers.
30.3.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen.
31.3.1821 Atanazy Raczyński’s marble copy of Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A41, is finished in Rome, today in the National Museum Poznań, Polen.
1.4.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik borrows 9,000 Roman scudi from Thorvaldsen.
2.4.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen and is pleased with the model, Nysø34, for Caroline Amalie’s portrait statue, A164.
6.4.1821 Attends a farewell party for Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie before their departure from Rome.
7.4.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik presents portrait busts in plaster of himself, cf. A197 or A753, and his wife Caroline Amalie, cf. A716 or A754, to eleven named persons in connection with his departure from Rome.
7.4.1821 Thorvaldsen and other artists take leave of Christian (8.) Frederik, Caroline Amalie and their servants at La Storta, an inn 15 kilometres north of Rome. Thorvaldsen is presented with a snuffbox, N40, as a farewell gift from the Prince.
17.4.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik sends Thorvaldsen the measurements of the Princess for the portrait statue Caroline Amalie, A164.
May 1821 J.C. Dahl, A229, is modelled.
Summer 1821 An eye disease prevents Thorvaldsen from working.
June 1821 Christian (8.) Frederik presents marble busts of himself and Caroline Amalie, cf. A753 and cf. A754, to Giovanni Battista Sommariva. Present location unknown.
June 1821 Luigi Bienaimé starts Peter, A86, after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
June 1821 Starts Paul, A103.
June - October 1821 Wlodzimierz Potocki, A155.
23.6.1821 - 29.12.1821 Marble version of the portrait bust from 1818 of Caroline von Humboldt is being carved in the studio. It is presumably not completed. Location unknown.
25.6.1821 Dinner at Piazza di Sciarra with J.C. Dahl, P.O. Brøndsted, Hermann Ernst Freund, Jørgen Koch, F.C. Hillerup, Simon Christian Pontoppidan and Hans Michelsen.
27.6.1821 J.C. Dahl leaves Rome.
July 1821 Starts Christ, cf. A82.
10.8.1821 Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne is unveiled in the presence of Prince Christian (8.) Frederik, among others. Thorvaldsen is not present.
Not later than 12.8.1821 Christian (8.) Frederik commissions a table decoration in bronze of Thorvaldsen’s: Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, Venus with the Apple, cf. A12, Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, Cupid and the Graces, cf. A29, Hebe, cf. A39, Jason with the Golden Fleece , cf. 52, Adonis, cf. A53, Mars Bringing Peace, cf. D174, Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, Dancing Girl, cf. A178, and Pietro Tenerani’s: Psiche abbandonata.
Not earlier than 12.8.1821 - not later than 10.5.1825 Christian 8.’s table decoration is cast by Wilhelm Hopfgarten: Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, Venus with the Apple, cf. A12, Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, Cupid and the Graces, cf. A29, Hebe, cf. A39, Jason with the Golden Fleece , cf. 52, Adonis, cf. A53, Mars Bringing Peace, cf. D174, Dancing Girl, cf. A178, and Pietro Tenerani’s: Psiche abbandonata.
20.8.1821 Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia presses Thorvaldsen for delivery of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
12.10.1821 Thorvaldsen complains about having severe arthritis.
Presumably November 1821 - January 1822 Christ, A82, is modelled by Pietro Tenerani.
Presumably completed December 1821 Pediment group John the Baptist Preaching, A59-A70.
End of 1821 The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, cf. A602, is modelled for the monument to Andrea Appiani.
End of 1821 James the Greater, A98, is modelled by Nicolò Marchetti after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
End of 1821 Matthew, A87, is modelled by Luigi Bienaimé after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A88.
End of 1821 Thomas, A96, is modelled by Giuseppe Tenerani after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A97.
Presumably not later than 1822 Giovanna Nugent, cf. A239, marble bust, Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeka (Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka), Croatia.
Presumably 1822 Jupiter, Minerva and Nemesis, A316.
Presumably 1822 Andrea Appiani, A629.
Presumably 1822 - 1823 Mercury about to Kill Argus cf. A5, new marble version is begun. Today at the Krzeszowice Castle, Krakow.
Presumably 1822 - 1823 Henry Thomas Hope, A265.
Presumably 1822 - 1825 Shepherd Boy, A895.
Begun 1822 Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, A508, reduced version of A503, begun by Pietro Galli.
1822 Mercury about to Kill Argus, A873.
1822 Józef Poniatowski, A126, preparatory work for A123.
1822 Juliane Sophie, A202.
1822 Possibly begins a new version of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, as a present for Iceland.
1822 Sees a live lion in a menagerie, a model for A122.
1822 - 1823 Horse, A125, model for A123.
31.1.1822 The sculptor Rudolf Schadow dies.
Completed not later than 13.2.1822 Christian Carl Friedrich August, A203.
Completed not later than 13.2.1822 Friedrich August Emil, A205.
Spring 1822 Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Ludwig, A201.
25.3.1822 Becomes a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Trondheim.
15.5.1822 Travels to Orvieto with P.O. Brøndsted and Giuseppe Tenerani in order to help the fever-stricken Pietro Tenerani return to Rome.
Not earlier than 17.5.1822 - not later than 22.5.1822 Leaves the fever-stricken Pietro Tenerani with Giuseppe Tenerani in Viterbo.
24.5.1822 Donates Caritas, marble relief (the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, cf. A598) to the Norwegian Hans Henrik Gunnerus.
Summer 1822 Apollinaris, cf. A186, marble, Accademia di Belle Arti, Ravenna, is sent from Rome.
Summer 1822 Supervises the completion of the late sculptor Rudolf Schadow’s unfinished statue of a Bacchus. The carving itself is performed by an unidentified worker in Schadow’s former studio.
Summer 1822 - October 1822 Thorvaldsen has respiratory problems.
Summer 1822 - September 1823 Nicolaus Copernicus, cf. A113.
7.6.1822 Travels to Viterbo with a doctor and Luigi Bienaimé in order to attend the fever-stricken Pietro Tenerani.
1.7.1822 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop in Rome and probably soon after commissions a version of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177.
1.8.1822 - 1844 Rents a stable in Palazzo Barbarini and fits up his large studio here.
Presumably autumn 1822 Leo von Klenze inquires about his commission for a cast of Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A503, for Palais Leuchtenberg, München.
September 1822 Thorvaldsen receives Joseph Karl Stieler’s portrait of Ludwig 1. of Bavaria, B163.
6.9.1822 Elected member of Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters).
18.9.1822 Sulpiz Boisserée writes to Thorvaldsen that the monument to Goethe must be postponed indefinitely.
October 1822 Edward J. Cooper commissions a funerary monument to his wife, which, however, is not executed.
October 1822 Pediment group John the Baptist Preaching, A59-A70, is assembled.
13.10.1822 Antonio Canova dies in Posagno.
15.10.1822 Peter Malling recommends H.W. Bissen in a letter to Thorvaldsen.
Begun November 1822 - presumably completed 1823 Vittoria Caldoni, A886.
Presumably not later than 15.11.1822 Dancing Girl, cf. A178, and Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, are sendt to Vienna in marble, probably to Nicolaus Esterházy, where they are subsequently exhibited in his sculpture gallery in the Mariahilf palace.
31.12.1822 Celebrates the New Year with, among others, P.O. Brøndsted and gives a party for 34 people, Germans, Danes, and Italians.
Presumably 1823 Baptismal Angel, A111, preparatory work for A110.
Presumably 1823 - 1826 Sheperd Boy, cf. A177, marble version, City Art Gallery, Manchester.
Begun 1823 - completed 1827 Jude Thaddeus, A94.
Completed 1823 Andrew, A95, is modelled by Joseph Hermann after a sketch by Thorvaldsen.
Completed 1823 Bartholomew, A99, is modelled by Carlesi after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A100.
Completed 1823 James the Less, A91, is modelled either by Angelo Bienaimé or Francesco Bienaimé, after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A92.
Completed 1823 Philip, A93, is modelled by Ferdinand Pettrich after Thorvaldsen’s bozzetto.
Completed 1823 Simon Zelotes, A101, is modelled by Emil Wolff after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A102.
Completed 1823 Giuseppe Pacetti models a version of John after Thorvaldsen’s sketch. It is first rejected but then re-used as Jude Thaddeus, which is also rejected in 1827.
1823 Cupid by Anacreon, Winter, A415.
1823 Cupid Triumphant, Examining his Arrow, A24, reworked version of A22.
1823 Trading Post by the River, cf. A510, is modelled as an extension of Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A503, for Christiansborg Castle.
Not earlier than 1823 Cupid by Anacreon, Winter, A416, reworked version of A415.
Not earlier than 1823 Cupid by Anacreon, Winter, A827.
25.1.1823 Franz Erwein von Schönborn commissions marble version of Sheperd Boy, cf. A177, with panpipe at his left foot and marble versions of Cupid with a Swan and Boys picking Fruit, Summer, cf. A411, Cupid and Bacchus, Autumn, cf. A413, and Cupid by Anacreon, Winter, cf. A415.
28.1.1823 - 15.7.1823 The architect Jacques-Ignace Hittorff and the painter and architect Ludwig Zanth (1796-1857) are in Rome and move into the fourth floor of Casa Buti at the suggestion of Karl Joseph Begas’.
30.1.1823 Attends a commemoration for Antonio Canova in the church of Santi Apostoli in Rome.
3.2.1823 Celebrates Carnival with P.O. Brøndsted.
6.2.1823 Awarded the Russian Order of St. Vladimir, N25.
9.3.1823 Probably attends the celebration of his daughter, Elisa Paulsen’s tenth birthday.
28.3.1823 Thorvaldsen is shot accidentally by the young Cesare Buti and wounded in the side and a finger.
29.4.1823 Party of artists to celebrate Thorvaldsen’s recovery from an accidental shot.
Not later than 9.5.1823 Executes a sketch for an oil lamp formed as a statuette of a vestal virgin for
Franz Erwein von Schönborn.
12.5.1823 Elected member of the Accademia Tiberina in Rome.
26.5.1823 P.O. Brøndsted gets a loan of 2,000 Roman scudi from Thorvaldsen. By way of security, Thorvaldsen gets Brøndsted’s collection of Greek and Roman coins and a collection of books and manuscripts.
June 1823 P.O. Brøndsted, on his way to Paris, visits Giovanni Battista Sommariva at Villa Carlotta, where he visits the hall for The Alexander frieze.
2.6.1823 Christian (8.) Frederik recommends H.W. Bissen to Thorvaldsen.
20.8.1823 Pius 7. dies. Thorvaldsen is present at the deathbed. He draws the Pope’s face and perhaps also models a death-mask, L660.
November 1823 Ercole Consalvi commissions a monument to Pius 7. for St. Peter’s (sketch A148).
November - December 1823 Baptismal Angel, A110.
Not earlier than December 1823 Baptismal Angel Kneeling, A781, preparatory work for A112.
20.12.1823 Elected foreign member of the Institut de France / Acadèmie Royale des Beaux-arts. A member was equipped with a uniform, N173, a hat, N174, and a sword, N175.
End of December 1823 The Italian student of sculpture Tommaso Gasperini arrives in Rome and becomes Thorvaldsen’s pupil.
Presumably 1824 Cupid and Bacchus, A407.
Presumably 1824 George Gordon Byron, A256.
Presumably 1824 - 1830 Unknown, A296.
Presumably 1824 - 1830 Pius 7.’s escutcheon, A145.
1824 Bartholomew, A100, preparatory work for A99.
1824 Pius 7., A149, preparatory work for A142.
Beginning of 1824 John is modelled in a new version, A89, by Nicolò Marchetti after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A90.
Beginning of 1824 Ercole Consalvi, A271.
Beginning of 1824 Pius 7., A270, preparatory work for A142.
Beginning of 1824 Just Mathias Thiele arrives in Rome and meets Thorvaldsen. He stays there until 2.5.1825.
January 1824 Monument for Pius 7., A148, preparatory work for A142-A145.
24.1.1824 Ercole Consalvi dies.
Spring 1824 Appointed by the Vatican to go over the Farnese collection of sculptures.
31.3.1824 Manuel Villena and Félix Baciocchi probably visit Thorvaldsen in his studio.
Not earlier than April 1824 Richard Bingham’s marble copy of Venus with the Apple, cf. A12, is sent to England. The ship is wrecked near the English coast, but Venus escapes unharmed.
Presumably 11.4. - 19.4.1824 The Ages of Love, cf. A427.
Not later than 17.4.1824 Ghazi-ud-Din Haider, A280, is modelled.
24.4. - 9.10.1824 Negotiations with Leo von Klenze about the monument to Leuchtenberg (Eugène de Beauharnais).
Summer 1824 Jørgen Knudtzon and Alexander Baillie visit Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Summer 1824 Meets Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Completed July 1824 Louisa Hope, A824.
Not earlier than July 1824 The Ages of Love, A426.
Not earlier than July 1824 Ghazi-ud-Din Haider, is completed in two marble copies, A887.
19.7. - 2.8.1824 Commission for a portrait bust of the late baron Unico von Dörnberg. It is not known whether the bust was executed.
August 1824 Requested to execute a monument to Torquato Tasso in San Onofrio, but as Thorvaldsen hesitates, the work is given to the sculptor Giuseppe de Fabris.
6.8.1824 Elected member of the American Academy of the Fine Arts, New York.
17.9.1824 Ercole Consalvis buste, cf. A271, is placed in the Pantheon.
Not earlier than 25.9.1824 - not later than 10.10.1824 H.W. Bissen arrives in Rome and visits Thorvaldsen.
12.10.1824 Thorvaldsen asks the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel to draw the architectural plan for the monument to Pope Pius 7. to be erected in St. Peter’s.
December 1824 Ludvig Bødtcher and Jørgen Jørgensen arrive in Rome.
13.12.1824 Elected member af the Accademia Labronica in Leghorn.
Not later than 21.12.1824 Thorvaldsen meets the Polish composer and pianist Maria Szymanowska.
24.12.1824 Danes in Rome celebrate Christmas Eve together. Present are Just Mathias Thiele, Hermann Ernst Freund, Hans Harder, Johan Christian Fick, Andreas Ludvig Koop, N.L. Høyen, H.W. Bissen, Jørgen Jørgensen, Ludvig Bødtcher, Ernst Meyer, F.C. Hillerup and Hans Christian Holten.
Thorvaldsen is not there. A song by Bødtcher is sung, and Meyer portrays the company in an etching.
Not earlier than 24.12.1824 C.W. Eckersberg, A788.
End of 1824 Drawings for the monument to Leuchtenberg (Eugène de Beauharnais), C322r, C323, C324, C326, C327r, C328r, C329r, C330, C331r, C332, C333, C335r and C335v.
End of 1824 Third sketch for Pius 7., A142, is completed.
Presumably 1825 The Genii of Life and Death, A157.
Presumably 1825 - 1827 Begins Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, marble version with a panpipe at his left foot. Location unknown.
1825 Heinrich Reinhold, A634.
1825 Stanislaw Kossakowski, A295.
Not earlier than 1825 Stanislaw Kossakowski, A706.
Beginning of 1825 Monument to Ercole Consalvi, A612.
20.1.1825 Receives the Order of the Red Eagle (3rdclass) from Friedrich Wilhelm 3. of Prussia, N20.
28.1.1825 Hosts a celebration of the beginning of the carnival and the birthday of the Danish King Frederik 6. for Danish friends in Rome.
8.2.1825 Leo von Klenze sends the contract for the monument to Leuchtenberg (Eugène de Beauharnais).
Spring 1825 Divine Power, A144, is begun.
Spring 1825 Heavenly Wisdom, A143, is begun.
March 1825 The model for Pius 7., A142, is completed.
Not later than 16.3.1825 Jean-François Champollion visits Thorvaldsen in his studios.
April 1825 Recumbent Lion, A122, is completed.
April 1825 Farewell party for Just Mathias Thiele and Hans Christian Holten, attended by Thorvaldsen, Hermann Ernst Freund, H.W. Bissen, Joseph Hermann, Ludvig Bødtcher, and others. The party ends with a nocturnal visit to the Roman Forum and the Colosseum. The party was painted by Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau.
April 1825 Asks Thiele to write his biography and advises him to seek information about his youth from Stephan Heger, Carl Heger and Jens Ulstrup.
Beginning of April 1825 N.L. Høyen and Johan Christian Fick leave Rome bound for Denmark.
15.4.1825 The brig St. Croix leaves the Danish West Indies bound for Italy in order to collect some of Thorvaldsen’s works of art.
20.4.1825 A cross (unknown today) is erected in front of the Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione, near Piazza Barberini. Presumably it is an ornamented base for a wooden cross.
24.4.1825 Admitted to the literary academy Accademia degli Arcadi under the name of Agesando Rhodio.
May 1825 Thorvaldsen restores statues acquired by Ludwig 1.
Not earlier than May 1825 Recumbent Lion, A121.
2.5.1825 Just Mathias Thiele and Hans Christian Holten leave Rome bound for Denmark.
9.5.1825 Receives a silver cup from the commission for Ercole Consalvi’s monument.
10.5.1825 - 25.5.1825 Hermann Ernst Freund accompanies 58 crates of Thorvaldsen’s works of art from Rome to Leghorn, where they are put into storage until the arrival of the brig St. Croix.
26.5.1825 - 23.6.1825 Hermann Ernst Freund visits Florence while waiting for the brig St. Croix to arrive at Leghorn.
Summer 1825 Giovanni Battista Sommariva receives the major part of Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505.
3.6.1825 The brig St. Croix arrives at Naples.
23.6.1825 The brig St. Croix arrives at Leghorn.
1.7.1825 The brig St. Croix is loaded with 52 crates containing Thorvaldsen’s works of art; plaster casts in the hold, marble works on the deck.
2.7.1825 The first large collection of Thorvaldsen’s works is sent from Leghorn to Copenhagen on board the naval brig St. Croix.
10.9.1825 The brig St. Croix arrives in Copenhagen with 52 crates containing Thorvaldsen’s works of art.
27.9.1825 Elected honorary member of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana.
14.10.1825 Elected member of the Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Antwerp.
16.12.1825 Elected president of the Accademia di S. Luca and receives the decoration Ordine del Moretto / Order of the Moor, N23.
24.12.1825 Hosts a Christmas party for Danish friends. Prepares the Christmas rice pudding and sponsors antique gems for the Christmas lottery. Among those present are Andreas Ludvig Koop, Ludvig Bødtcher, F.C. Hillerup and Ole Jørgen Schmidt.
Presumably 1826 - 1828 Mercury about to Kill Argus, jf. A5, new marble version is completed. Today at the Krzeszowice Castle, Krakow.
1826 Rosa Taddei, A877.
1826 The first thoughts about Thorvaldsen’s Museum arise.
Beginning of 1826 Józef Poniatowski, A124, preparatory work for A123.
1826 - 1827 The Ponte Molle Society arranges a triumphal procession for 10 members of the society: Thorvaldsen, Otto Magnus Stackelberg, August Kestner, Johan Niklas Byström, Carl Eggers, Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz, Benjamin Ludwig Jollage, Joseph Anton Koch, Joseph Thürmer (1787-1833) and Wilhelm Stier.
1826 - 1827 Portrayed in a pencil sketch by H.W. Bissen.
6.1.1826 Giovanni Battista Sommariva dies.
28.1.1826 Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated in Thorvaldsen’s rooms by the Danes in Rome.
March 1826 - February 1828 Cupid with the Bow, marble, Ardgowan, Greenock, Skotland, cf. A819.
8.3.1826 Celebrated on his Roman birthday by German artist friends. Also present are Ludvig Bødtcher and Andreas Ludvig Koop.
14.3.1826 Elected member of the Reale Accademia di belle Arti di Torino.
19.3.1826 N.C.L. Abrahams arrives in Rome in the company of Nicolai Gerson.
10.7.1826 Attends Sigismund von Neukomm’s birthday party in the evening.
August 1826 Carsten Hauch arrives in Rome from Naples and moves into Casa Buti shortly afterwards.
August 1826 Receives silver and gold medals for The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, cf. A602, on Andrea Appiani’s monument.
Autumn 1826 Receives a commission from the Polish government for a monument to Alexander 1, which, however, is not executed.
End of September 1826 Party for the Danes in Rome at an osteria near the Pantheon on the occasion of N.C.L. Abrahams’ and Nicolai Gerson’s return to Rome from Naples.
18.10.1826 Leo 12. visits Thorvaldsen’ studio in order to inspect the monument to Pius 7. The pope stands in worship in front of Christ, cf. A82, for an hour.
Not earlier than 16.11.1826 Excursion to Tivoli to see the disastrous flooding of the river Aniene, destroyed embankments and vanished artificial waterfalls. Participants: Danes in Rome, among them Thorvaldsen, Børge Thorlacius, N.C.L. Abrahams, Johann Martin von Wagner, and others.
Winter 1826 - 1827 Carsten Hauch reads his dramatized fairy play The Hamadryad to the Danes in Rome in Thorvaldsen’s rooms. N.C.L. Abrahams and Ludvig Bødtcher are among those present.
9.12.1826 Calls in 9,000 Roman scudi that Christian (8.) Frederik borrowed from Thorvaldsen in 1821. Christian (8.) Frederik has problems repaying the money.
24.12.1826 Christmas Eve is celebrated by Danes in Rome in Thorvaldsen’s and Hauch’s rooms in Casa Buti. At least 19 people are present, among them Bissen, Freund, Thorlacius, Abrahams, Schmidt, Bødtcher, Koop. Antique gems from Thorvaldsen’s collection are raffled off as presents. A comedy by Abrahams is performed. Songs by Hauch and Bødtcher are sung.
31.12.1826 Awarded the Accademia Tiberina’s medal for 1826.
31.12.1826 New Year’s Eve is celebrated by Danes and others in Rome in Thorvaldsen’s rooms. Among those present are: Bissen, Freund, Thorlacius, Abrahams, Schmidt, Bødtcher, Koop, Hauch, the Buti family, Senff, Wolff, Trentanove. Act 2 of Holberg’s Jacob von Thyboe is performed.
End of 1826 Józef Poniatowski, A123.
Not later than 1827 J.C. Dahl, jf. A229, completed in marble. Bergen Art Museum.
Presumably 1827 Venus and Cupid, A919.
Presumably 1827 - 1828 Baptismal Angel Kneeling, A112.
Presumably 1827 - 1838 Unknown, A305.
Begun 1827 Victoria, A48.
1827 Triumphant Muse and Cupid, A49.
1827 Triumphant Muse and Cupid, A50.
1827 Caroline Amalie, A164.
1827 Eugène de Beauharnais, A156.
1827 The first version of Jude Thaddeus (completed 1823) is rejected and replaced by A94.
1827 Marble version of Christ, cf. A82, and Pius 7., cf. A270, carved by Pietro Bienaimé in Carrara.
2.1.1827 N.C.L. Abrahams visits Thorvaldsen, who tells him about his relationship with Antonio Canova.
Presumably 25.1.1827 Invited to buy the Roman Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia in Via della Conciliazione (formerly called Palazzo Castellesi).
2.2.1827 Awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown by Wilhelm 1., N14.
Not later than 4.2.1827 Marble version of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, completed for a church in Iceland, maybe in two copies, one of which may have been sold to the 2nd Earl of Caledon, Du Pré Alexander.
20.2. - 26.2.1827 A farce written and played by Ferdinand Flor and N.C.L. Abrahams is performed in front of the German-Scandinavian colony of artists during the Roman carnival. At the end of the play, the Genius of Art presents Thorvaldsen with a laurel wreath.
27.2.1827 The last day of the carnival is celebrated with a dinner given by N.C.L. Abrahams and Nicolai Gerson with the Persiani family, Carsten Hauch, Thorvaldsen, and others.
6.3.1827 Receives a commission for a sketch of a monument to Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri for Campo Santo in Pisa, plus a relief, A613, and a portrait medallion of Vaccà Berlinghieri.
8.3.1827 Danish and German artists celebrates Thorvaldsen with a torch light procession and an orchestra on his Roman birthday. The party is held in his apartment in Casa Buti.
April 1827 Christian 8.’s table decoration is exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Beginning of April 1827 Thorvaldsen arranges a party for German and Danish artists at the Villa Albani in Rome in recognition of the tribute paid to him 8.3.1827. Also present are Joseph Anton Koch, the Riepenhausen brothers, Johann Martin von Wagner, Johann Christian Reinhart and others.
9.4.1827 Sketch for Bacchante and a Satyr, cf. A355, on a ticket from Accademia di S. Luca, C363b.
Middle of April 1827 Farewell party for Carsten Hauch, the evening before his departure from Rome. The party took place in Thorvaldsen’s rooms in Casa Buti.
Beginning of May 1827 Ludwig 1. arrives in Rome and is fêted with a torchlight procession and singing by German and Scandinavian artists and others. N.C.L. Abrahams takes part, and Thorvaldsen does also.
4.5.1827 Ludwig 1. visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop. In the evening, invited to Ludwig 1.’s banquet.
24.5.1827 N.C.L. Abrahams leaves Rome in the company of Nicolai Gerson.
Summer 1827 The cast of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, is declared ready for shipment.
Beginning of September 1827 The merchant ship Therese leaves Copenhagen bound for Tunis with a cargo of tributary gifts for Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud.
Not later than 4.9.1827 Karoline von Rehfues, A245, is commissioned and modelled.
Not later than October 1827 Composition drawing of the monument to Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri, location unknown.
Begun 6.10.1827 - presumably October 1831 Karoline von Rehfues, A861.
28.10.1827 The merchant ship Therese arrives in Tunis with a cargo of tributary gifts for Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud.
November 1827 - June 1831 Line drawings for engravings of Thorvaldsen’s sculptures are executed by H.W. Bissen and Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau. The engravings are for J.M. Thiele’s biography of Thorvaldsen.
17.11.1827 Pietro Tenerani and Thorvaldsen have a disagreement about their cooperation on the monument to the Duke of Leuchtenberg, cf. Eugène de Beauharnais, A156, and The Genii of Life and Death, A157.
18.11.1827 - 31.10.1829 Pietro Tenerani is involved in a lawsuit with Thorvaldsen.
28.11.1827 - 14.12.1827 The merchant ship Therese arrives at Leghorn 28.11.1827 and is quarantined until 14.12.1827.
21.12.1827 - 4.1.1828 Freund travels from Rome to Leghorn with 64 crates with Thorvaldsen’s art works on board the ship L’Anime del Purgatorio. Freund continues his own journey through Paris to Denmark.
31.12.1827 Awarded the Accademia Tiberina’s medal for 1827.
Presumably 1828 Ludwig (1.), A232.
Presumably 1828 Wriothesley Russell?, A285.
Completed 1828 Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
Completed 1828 Venus with the Apple, A853.
1828 Henry Labouchère, A294.
1828 Vilhelmine, A196.
Not earlier than 1828 Cupid in Heaven, A377.
Not earlier than 1828 Cupid in the Underworld, A380.
Not earlier than 1828 Cupid at Sea, A379.
Not earlier than 1828 Cupid on Earth, A378.
Not earlier than 1828 Cupid on Earth, A729.
Not earlier than 1828 George Hilaro Barlow, A892.
Beginning of 1828 Cupid in Heaven, A381.
Beginning of 1828 Cupid in Heaven, A385, preparatory work for A381.
Beginning of 1828 Cupid in Heaven, A386, preparatory work for A381.
Beginning of 1828 Cupid in the Underworld, A384.
Beginning of 1828 Cupid at Sea, A383.
Beginning of 1828 Cupid on Earth, A382.
Beginning of 1828 Monument to Jane Lawly, A623.
Beginning of 1828 Jørgen Knudtzon and Alexander Baillie visit Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Completed not later than 1828 George Granville Leveson Gower, cf. A259, marble bust, unknown location.
Completed not later than 1828 Henry Thomas Hope, A825.
1.1.1828 Cupid on Earth, A387, preparatory work for A382.
11.1.1828 70 crates with Thorvaldsen’s works of art are loaded onto the merchant ship Therese at Leghorn.
11.1.1828 Forgets a letter at the house of Luigi Chiaveri.
17.1.1828 Evening party at the house of Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia in the company of Charlotte de Weykenskiöld(?).
February 1828 The merchant ship Therese leaves Leghorn with 70 crates containing several of Thorvaldsen’s works of art.
Presumably 17.2.1828 Supper on the last day of the carnival at the trattoria Lepre with the Persiani family and Karl August Nicander.
Spring 1828 Bequeathes his works and collections to Copenhagen.
Presumably 26.3. - 8.4.1828 Prince Frederik (7.) visits Rome with Thorvaldsen’s friend Conrad Rantzau.
26.3.1828 Awarded the title of Commander of the Civil Order of Saxony.
30.3.1828 Comments on the archaeologist Wilhelm Dorow’s collection of Etruscan antiques.
April 1828 Nicolaus Copernicus, cf. A113, is sent to Warsaw.
April 1828 The merchant ship Therese arrives in Copenhagen with 70 crates containing Thorvaldsen’s works of art, among them Christ and the twelve apostles in plaster.
Not earlier than April 1828 Marianna Florenzi, A278, is commissioned and modelled.
Not earlier than April 1828 Frederik (7.), A200.
Not earlier than April 1828 - not later than December 1828 Plaster casts of Christ, cf. A82, and the twelve apostles, cf. Peter, A86, Matthew, A87, John, A89, James the Younger, A91, Philip, A93, Thomas, A96, James the Elder, A98, Bartholomew, A99, Simon the Zealot, A101, Paul, A103, Judas Thaddaeus, A105 and Andrew, A108, are placed in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.
It turns out that the statues of the apostles are too big for the intended niches.
Not earlier than 5.4.1828 George Hilaro Barlow, A289.
17.4.1828 Thorvaldsen probably has dinner with Mary and Benjamin Gaskell.
8.5. - 17.5.1828 Prince Frederik (7.) and Conrad Rantzau are back in Rome after a visit to Naples.
Summer 1828 Monument to Vaccà Berlinghieri, A613.
Summer 1828 The cast of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, is shipped to Gdansk.
3.6.1828 Probably takes part in an excursion to a vigna close to Rome with Andrea Acquistapace, Anna Maria Uhden, and Elisa Paulsen.
8.7.1828 Baptismal Angel Kneeling, cf. A112, is commissioned.
August 1828 Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, is shipped to Thomas Hope in England 25 years after it was commissioned.
Beginning of August 1828 Thorvaldsen and Anna Maria Uhden enroll their daughter Elisa in Maison Royale de S. Denys, a French convent school in Rome. She remains here until December 1830.
End of August 1828 The marble reliefs Hercules and Hebe, cf. A317, Hygieia and Aesculapius, cf. A318, Minerva and Prometheus, cf. A319, and Nemesis and Jupiter, cf. A320, are placed on the façade of Christiansborg Palace.
Winter 1828 - 1829 Thomas Hope receives Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
24.12.1828 Christmas Eve is celebrated in Thorvaldsen’s rooms with Danes in Rome. Christmas songs by Ludvig Bødtcher and C.H. Lorenzen.
29.12.1828 Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, has arrived at Gdansk.
31.12.1828 New Year celebration at Thorvaldsen’s in Casa Buti with, among others, Karl August Nicander.
31.12.1828 Awarded the Accademia Tiberina’s medal for 1828, F123.
Presumably 1829 Eliza Glenorchy?, A268.
Presumably 1829 John Campbell?, A303.
Presumably 1829 - 1830 Monument to Charles Drake Garrard and Wife, A620.
Begun 1829 Marianna Florenzi, A727.
1829 The Genius of Death for the Monument to Wlodzimierz Potocki, A627.
1829 Monument to Vaccà Berlinghieri, cf. A613, and the portrait medallion of Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri are executed in marble for Campo Santo, Pisa.
1829 Youth Leading a Horse, A512.
1829 Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia, A277.
1829 Vilhelmine, A195.
1829 Caroline von Humboldt’s marble version of The Goddess of Hope, cf. A47, arrives in Berlin. Today at Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
1829 Henry Labouchère commissions a colossal statue of Achilleus, which probably is not executed.
1829 Rembrandt Peale portrays Thorvaldsen (oil on canvas, 66×45 cm, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia).
Not earlier than 1829 The Genius of Death for the Monument to Wlodzimierz Potocki, A626.
Beginning of 1829 Artur Potocki, A291.
Not later than 25.1.1829 Charles Benet Drake Garrard commissions Monument to Charles Drake Garrard and Wife, cf. A620.
28.1.1829 Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated by the Danes living in Rome.
Not later than 5.2.1829 Baptismal Angel Kneeling, cf. A112 og Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, are cast in plaster and shipped to Denmark.
7.2.1829 At the theatre Argentina with Karl August Nicander. Learns that Pope Leo 12. is on his deathbed.
18.2.1829 Ludwig 1. of Bavaria visits Thorvaldsen in his studio and awards him the title of Commander of the Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown, N10, with the words: “The soldier is honoured on the battlefield, but the artist among his works”.
Presumably 24.2. - 25.2.1829 Part of Thorvaldsen’s collection of coins and books is stolen from Casa Buti. He discovers the theft some days later. The thief was C.H. Lorenzen.
Spring 1829 Alexander Murray commissions Napoleon Bonaparte, cf. A909.
March 1829 Caroline von Humboldt dies in Berlin.
March - September 1829 The Dance of the Muses on Helikon, marble relief, cf. A341. Probably occasioned by Elisa Baciocchi’s commission in 1813, location unknown.
31.3.1829 Thorvaldsen’s “museum” opens as part of the recently renovted Antiksal at Charlottenborg.
Not earlier than April 1829 The cast of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, is sent from Gdansk to Warsaw, after which the bronze casting is begun.
3.4.1829 Grand Duchess Helene of Russia most probably visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop in the afternoon.
Begun 7.4.1829 - completed 11.4.1829 Helene is modelled, A247.
6.5.1829 Honorary member of The National Academy of Design, New York.
11.5.1829 Józef Poniatowski, bronze, cf. A123, is unveiled in Warsaw.
20.5.1829 A copy of Hope, executed by Friedrich Tieck for Caroline von Humboldt’s funerary monument, is unveiled.
22.5.1829 A committee led by John C. Hobhouse commissions the statue George Gordon Byron, cf. A130.
7.6.1829 The Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen is consecrated Whitsunday.
26.6.1829 Receives, through Torlonia, the first instalment (2,000 scudi) of the 9,000 Roman scudi that Christian (8.) Frederik borrowed from Thorvaldsen in 1821.
August 1829 Alexis de Chateauneuf commissions a bronze relief for a funerary monument.
1.8.1829 Awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Dannebrog.
8.10.1829 Receives, through Torlonia, the second instalment (2,000 scudi) of the 9,000 Roman scudi that Christian (8.) Frederik borrowed from Thorvaldsen in 1821.
Not later than 22.10.1829 The monument to Leuchtenberg (Eugène de Beauharnais) (original models A156 and A157) arrives in Munich.
24.11.1829 The Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop with his colleague Antoni Edward Odyniec, Marynia Zaleska and Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaia.
18.12.1829 Elected foreign honorary member of the Accademia dei Filergiti in Forli.
Presumably the 1830s Psyche and Mercury, A432, probably part of the series of reliefs, A433-A448, modelled by Pietro Galli.
Presumably the 1830s Unknown, A284 (probably John O’Brien ).
Presumably the 1830s Unknown, A287.
The 1830s Flower Girl, A184, possibly connected with Young Dancing Girl, A180, A181 and A182.
Presumably 1830 Victoria, A360.
Presumably 1830 Victoria, A710.
Presumably 1830 Napoleon Bonaparte, A252.
Presumably 1830 Napoleon Bonaparte, A909.
1830 Victoria, A359.
1830 Victoria, A361.
1830 Victoria, A362.
1830 Victory, A363.
1830 George Gordon Byron, A133, preparatory work for A130.
1830 Completes the monument to Wlodzimierz Potocki, in Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, with the relief The Genius of Death for the Monument to Wlodzimierz Potocki, A626.
Not earlier than 1830 Napoleon Bonaparte, A732, finished under the supervision of H.W. Bissen.
Not earlier than 1830 Napoleon Bonaparte, A867.
Beginning of 1830 Completes the marble version of Monument to Johann Philipp Bethmann-Hollweg, cf. A615,1, A615,2 and A615,3, Frankfurt am Main.
Beginning of 1830 The monument to Leuchtenberg (Eugène de Beauharnais), cf. A156, is erected in St. Michael’s Church in Munich.
1830 - 1832 Maximilian 1., A127, preparatory work for A128.
8.1.1830 Probably attends a musical soirée given by the Manzini family.
Not earlier than 16.1.1830 H.W. Bissen resumes work for Thorvaldsen after an illness.
18.1.1830 Receives a written request from H.W. Bissen for the loan of the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik to be executed in marble (cf. A753 og A197), commissioned by Joseph Hambro.
22.1.1830 Leaves Rome bound for Munich in the company of the Prussian count, jurist, and diplomat Karl von Voß-Buch.
26.1.1830 Arrival at Florence on the way to Munich.
30.1.1830 Design for a monument to Friedrich Schiller commissioned by Verein für Schiller’s Denkmal.
31.1.1830 Leaves Florence for Munich.
31.1.1830 Elected honorary member of the Academia et Universitas Vilnensis, Vilnius.
February or March 1830 Rejser muligvis over Carrara for at besøge marmorbruddene dér.
February or March 1830 Rejser muligvis over Pisa for at bese Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieris gravmonument, jf. A613, på Campo Santo.
Presumably 11.2.1830 Passes Innsbruck.
14.2.1830 Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri’s monument is unveiled in Campo Santo, Pisa, without Thorvaldsen’s attendance.
14.2.1830 Arrives in Munich. Lodges in the apartment of Christian Daniel Rauch at Odeonsplatz nr. 1068.
14.2.1830 Visits the bedridden Ludwig 1. immediately after his arrival in Munich.
15.2. - 13.3.1830 Besøger maleriudstilling af lokale kunstnere i Kunstverein München.
16.2.1830 Besøger dronning Therese af Bayern.
17.2.1830 Deltager i hofbal i München.
18.2. - 2.3.1830 Negociations and drawing up of a contract for a monument to Maximilian 1., cf. A128, between Thorvaldsen and Leo von Klenze.
19.2.1830 Celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour in the hall of Paradiesgarten in Munich.
22.2.1830 Til middag hos Augusta Amalia von Leuchtenberg.
27.2.1830 Celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour with artists and professors, given by the vice-chancellor of the university Friedrich Thiersch.
Spring 1830 A plaster cast of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, is exhibited in the spring exhibition of Charlottenborg as catalogue number 165: Baptismal Font, for the church of Myklabye in Iceland
4.3.1830 Celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour at the Odeon. 150 of the most important persons in Munich attends.
4.3.1830 The party continues the same evening at the torchlit Glyptothek in Munich on the inititave of Ludwig 1.. Thorvaldsen is greeted with a song.
6.3.1830 Elected member of the Kunstverein München during his stay in that city.
8.3.1830 Visits Queen Therese.
8.3.1830 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Society of Danish Roman at an inn in Christianshavn without the sculptor’s presence. 21 men are present. Songs by F.C. Hillerup and N.C.L. Abrahams.
8.3.1830 Spends the evening of his Roman birthday with the members of the “Liederkranz” without mentioning the special meaning of the day until after he has left the party.
8.3.1830 Woken up during the night following his Roman birthday with late cheering and singing by the “Liederkranz”.
12.3.1830 The monument to the Duke of Leuchtenberg Eugène de Beauharnais, cf. A156, is unveiled in Saint Michael’s Church, Munich.
14.3.1830 Departs from Munich bound for Rome in the company of Peter von Hess and Bernhard von Eichthal.
20.3.1830 Arrives in Florence.
Presumably 21.3.1830 Sees Stefano Ricci’s Cenotaph of Dante Alighieri, 1818-29, in Santa Croce, Firenze.
22.3.1830 Leaves Florence bound for Rome.
25.3.1830 Arrives in Rome.
11.5.1830 Nicolaus Copernicus, bronze, cf. A113, is unveiled in Warsaw in front of the Staszic palace.
25.5.1830 Elected honorary member of the Verein von Künstlern und Kunstfreunden, Nuremberg.
Summer 1830 The execution of the original model, now lost, of Cupid and Erato, cf. A343.
14.6.1830 Probably visits his daughter Elisa Thorvaldsen in her French convent school in Rome, Maison Royale de S. Denys. Perhaps in the company of Anna Maria Uhden.
30.6.1830 Member of the Société des Amis des Lettres in Warsaw.
August 1830 Sketch, possibly C350r, for the monument to George Gordon Byron, A130.
8.8.1830 Draws up his first will, in which he leaves his works and collections to Copenhagen in return for the foundation of Thorvaldsens Museum.
12.8.1830 Elected honorary member of the Accademia della Valle Tiberina Toscana de Scienze ed Arti, Firenze.
Not earlier than 21.8.1830 Monument to George Gordon Byron, C352, cf. A130.
Not earlier than 31.8.1830 The Genius of Poetry, C353 (sketch for A134). The relief is part of the monument to George Gordon Byron, cf. A130.
November 1830 The spot for the funerary monument of Pius 7., cf. A142, in St. Peter’s, Rome, is ready.
19.11.1830 Drawing, C349, of possible design for Napoleon Bonaparte, cf. A909, and Victory, A360.
December 1830 Angel, A146.
December 1830 Angel, A147.
24.12.1830 Celebrates Christmas with Danish artists in Rome.
31.12.1830 Awarded the Accademia Tiberina’s medal for 1830, F124.
Presumably 1831 Cupid and Erato, A343.
Presumably 1831 - 1832 Dissatisfied with not having received a commission for the 12 apostles for the Church of Our Lady in marble, Thorvaldsen decides to let them carve at his own expense, cf. A86, A87, A89, A91, A93, A96, A98, A99, A101, A103, A105, A108.
Begun 1831 Walter Scott, A255.
1831 Four Babylonians with Horses, A507.
1831 Maximilian 1., jf. A189.
1831 Mother and her Children with Sheep, A511.
Not earlier than 1831 Cupid and the Graces, A375.
Not earlier than 1831 Cupid Riding on a Lion, A389.
Not earlier than 1831 Shepherdess with a Nest of Cupids, A424.
Not earlier than 1831 Pan and a Satyr, A352.
Beginning of 1831 August von Goethe, A632.
January 1831 John Wyllie, cf. A283, is modelled. Marble version at the Town and County Hall, Forfar, Scotland, acc.nr. F1988.1.
8.1.1831 The city of Turin sends Thorvaldsen a gold box in acknowledgement of his assistance to young Turin artists in Rome.
8.1.1831 Elected member of the Società di Musica.
25.1.1831 Elected permanent member of Kunstforeningen af 1825 (The Art Society of 1825, Copenhagen).
29.1.1831 Jonas Collin is in charge of commissioning a portrait bust of Thorvaldsen, executed by H.W. Bissen.
February 1831 Revolutionary atmosphere in Rome during the Carnival. Thorvaldsen fears for his works.
Spring 1831 Peter, cf. A86, and Paul, cf. A103, are sent to Carrara to be carved in marble.
Spring 1831 Considers leaving Rome as soon as his works in progress have been completed, due to the crisis in February.
8.3.1831 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Society of Danish Romans at Bødkerkroen on Christianshavn without the sculptor’s presence. 27-28 men attend.
Begun 23.3.1831 - completed 13.1.1832 Bust of Thorvaldsen, G119, is executed by H.W. Bissen.
2.4.1831 Pius 7.’s monument, AX392, is unveiled in St. Peter’s, Rome.
16.4.1831 Meets Samuel Morse for the first time at a dinner party.
Completed May 1831 Marble version of Henry Labouchère, cf. A294.
May 1831 George Gordon Byron, A130.
Not earlier than May 1831 George Gordon Byron, A132.
1.5.1831 Awarded the title of Officier de l’Ordre Royal de la Légion d’Honneur, N21.
20.5.1831 Christian Friedrich Tieck’s copy of Goddess of Hope, cf. A47, is placed on the top of the granite column which constitutes the monument to Caroline von Humboldt in the garden of Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
Presumably summer 1831 Woman Letting a Boy Ride a Ram, cf. A506.
Presumably summer 1831 Warrior Leading a Horse, A513.
Presumably summer 1831 Ulysses Receiving the Arms of Achilles, A498.
Presumably summer 1831 Pan and a Satyr, A353.
Not earlier that summer 1831 - end of 1831 Cupid and the Graces, A376.
Not later than June 1831 The Genius of Poetry, A134.
Not earlier than June 1831 The Genius of Poetry, A131.
23.6.1831 The poet Angelo Maria Ricci sends Thorvaldsen suggestions for the cycle of Cupid reliefs in a letter dated 23.6.1831.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid Sets Stone on Fire, A404.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid Charms Flowers, A403.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid Sailing, A400.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid Sailing, A401, reworked version of A400.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid and a Dog, A398.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid and a Butterfly, A399.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid and Ganymede, A395.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid and Hymen, A455.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid and Jupiter, A392.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid Collecting Shells, A402.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid, Jupiter and Juno, A394.
Not earlier than July 1831 - not later than September 1831 Cupid, Jupiter and Juno, A878, presumably after a preparatory model of A394.
Presumably autumn 1831 Cupid Riding on a Lion, A390.
Presumably autumn 1831 Hylas and the Water Nymphs, A483.
Presumably autumn 1831 Shepherdess with a Nest of Cupids, A425.
Not earlier than September 1831 Cupid and a Dog, A396.
Not earlier than September 1831 Cupid and a Butterfly, A397.
Not earlier than September 1831 Cupid and Jupiter, A391.
Not earlier than September 1831 Cupid, Jupiter and Juno, A393.
11.9.1831 Threatens to resign from the Accademia di S. Luca, Rome.
14.9.1831 The Accademia di S. Luca asks Thorvaldsen to withdraw his resignation of 11.9.1831.
20.9.1831 Portrayed in a painting by Samuel Morse.
Presumably October 1831 Bernhard von Eichthal, A243.
Completed October 1831 Jacob Loewy?, A885.
Completed October 1831 Ludwig 1.’s version of Adonis, cf. A53, marble, Neue Pinakothek, Munich is finished. The statue was commissioned autumn 1808.
20.10.1831 Receives, through Torlonia, the third and last instalment (5,000 scudi) of the 9,000 Roman scudi that Christian (8.) Frederik borrowed from Thorvaldsen in 1821.
9.11.1831 Ludwig 1. is pleased with the completion of Adonis, cf. A53, and inquires about Maximilian 1., cf. A128.
Presumably 1832 The Graces Dancing, A374.
Presumably 1832 Hylas and the Water Nymphs, A482.
Presumably 1832 Charles James Patrick Mahon?, A286.
Presumably 1832 Horace Vernet, A884.
Presumably 1832 - 1833 Ulysses Receiving the Arms of Achilles, A497.
Presumably 1832 - 1833 Julia Potocka, A269.
Presumably 1832 - 1838 Vulcan, A10, preparatory work for A9.
1832 Alexander the Great Sets Fire to Persepolis, A515.
1832 Horace Vernet, A254.
1832 Publication of Angelo Maria Ricci’s book Anacreonte novissimo with line engravings of Thorvaldsen’s reliefs.
1832 - 1834 Cupid and Hymen, A454.
3.3.1832 The city of Mainz contacts Thorvaldsen regarding a monument to Johann Gutenberg.
8.3.1832 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Society of Danish Romans at Christianshavns Borgerdydsskole without the sculptor’s presence.
April - May 1832 Walter Scott is in Rome and visits Thorvaldsen.
Summer 1832 - summer 1833 Horse, A129, preparatory work for A128.
Begun June 1832 The Procession to Parnassus, A339.
8.8.1832 Applies for permission to adopt his daughter Elisa before her forthcoming marriage to Fritz Paulsen.
8.8.1832 The city of Mainz commissions a monument to Johan Gutenberg, cf. A114.
Not earlier than 8.8.1832 Travels to Carrara with his daughter Elisa in order to inspect Christ, cf. A82.
Not earlier than 8.8.1832 Thorvaldsen requests and receives study material on Johann Gutenberg for the execution of the Gutenberg monument, cf. A114, A115, A116.
21.8.1832 Receives a commission for four statues of his own choice from Slotsbygningskommissionen (Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace) for the Great Hall in Christiansborg Palace.
Presumably September 1832 Travels from Carrara via Genoa to Vicenza with Elisa in order to ask the clergy to allow the Catholic Elisa to marry the Protestant Fritz Paulsen.
Not later than 30.10.1832 Leaves Elisa in a convent in Vinenza. This is not according to Thorvaldsen’s own wish, but according to a demand made by Fritz Paulsen, his coming son in law.
30.10.1832 Travels alone from Vicenza to Milan via Padua.
November 1832 Stays in Milan, where he visits, among others, Heinrich Mylius, who commissions a work for his late son Julius’ chapel in Loveno on Lake Como.
November 1832 During his stay in Milan THorvaldsen visits Novara, where he views the high altar in the Basilica di S. Gaudenzio, for which he receives a commission for two bas-reliefs in bronze from Alessandro Antonelli.
Beginning of November 1832 Returns to Rome.
24.11.1832 - 11.6.1835 Considers travel to Copenhagen, but postpones the plan.
21.12.1832 Fritz Paulsen and Elisa Thorvaldsen leave Vicenza for Laibach (Ljubljana) in order to get married there.
24.12.1832 Gives a Christmas party for Danes in Rome; among the guests is C.H. Donner.
25.12.1832 Thorvaldsen’s daughter Elisa marries Fritz Paulsen in Laibach (Ljubljana).
Presumably 1833 Hylas and the Water Nymphs, A484.
1833 Conradin, A151, preparatory work for A150.
1833 Conradin, A820, cast of A151.
1833 Hovering Angels, A590. Model of bronze reliefs for the high altar in the Basilica di S. Gaudenzio, Novara (see november 1832), commissioned by Alessandro Antonelli”:/personer/antonelli-alessandro.
1833 Hovering Angels, A591. Model of bronze reliefs for the high altar in the Basilica di S. Gaudenzio, Novara (see november 1832), commissioned by Alessandro Antonelli”:/personer/antonelli-alessandro.
1833 Executes the relief Thorvaldsen at the meta. Present location unknown.
Not earlier than 1833 The Genii of Music Playing, A587.
Not earlier than 1833 The Genii of Music Singing, A585.
1833 - 1835 John, A578.
1833 - 1835 Matthew, A575.
1833 - 1835 Maximilian 1., A762.
1833 - 1846 Thorvaldsen’s “studio museum” in his extended residence at Charlottenborg.
16.1.1833 Caritas, marble relief, cf. A598, which had been given to Hans Henrik Gunnerus, is bought by Kirkebygningskommissionen and placed in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.
28.1.1833 Probably attends the celebration of Frederik 6.’s birthday by Danes in Rome. A song by Ludvig Bødtcher is sung.
Presumably spring 1833 The Ponte Molle Society arranges a triumphal procession in Thorvaldsen’s honour and probably presents him with the bajocco order, N90.
March 1833 Buys Wilhelm Bendz’ Artists in Finck’s Coffee-house in Munich, B197.
8.3.1833 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Society of Danish Romans at Christianshavns Borgerdydsskole without the sculptor’s presence. 33 men attend. A song by F.C. Hillerup is sung.
12.3.1833 Frederik 6. gives Thorvaldsen permission to adopt his daughter Elisa.
28.3.1833 Appointed director of the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, due to Thorvaldsen’s message about his approaching return.
Presumably completed April 1833 The marble version of Charles James Patrick Mahon?, cf. A286, is completed. Location unknown.
6.4.1833 Recommends H.W. Bissen for the execution of the frieze for Christiansborg Palace, cf. the later Ceres og Bacchus (burned 1884).
12.4.1833 Elected honorary member of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna.
14.4.1833 Heinrich Mylius commissions a funerary monument to his son Julius, inspired by a treatise by Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) on Nemesis, cf. A364.
1.5.1833 The corvette Galathea leaves Copenhagen bound for Tangier, Tripoli, Malta, Naples, and Leghorn.
19.5.1833 Elected honorary member of L’Ateneo di Brescia.
Not earlier than 27.5.1833 - not later than 6.8.1833 65 crates with Thorvaldsen’s art works are transported from Rome to Leghorn by boat.
Presumably summer 1833 Bacchante and a Satyr, A355.
Presumably summer 1833 The Abduction of Ganymede, A349.
Presumably summer 1833 The Abduction of Ganymede, A350.
Presumably summer 1833 Hebe and Ganymede, A351.
Presumably summer 1833 Hylas and the Water Nymphs, A485, reworked version of A483.
Presumably summer 1833 John, A582.
Presumably summer 1833 Luke, A581.
Presumably summer 1833 Luke, A583.
Presumably summer 1833 Luke, A584.
Presumably summer 1833 Mark, A580.
Presumably summer 1833 Matthew, A579.
Presumably summer 1833 The Genii of Music Playing, A588.
Presumably summer 1833 The Genii of Music Singing, A586.
Presumably summer 1833 The Fates, A366.
Summer 1833 Disagreement between Thorvaldsen and P.O. Brøndsted about Brøndsted’s collections, which have been given as security against a loan from Thorvaldsen.
Begun summer 1833 - completed 28.6.1834 The monument Johann Gutenberg, A114, is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision.
Not earlier than summer 1833 - 28.6.1834 Preparatory work for the base of the Gutenberg Monument, A709.
Not earlier than 16.7.1833 - not later than 6.8.1833 The marble version of Christ, cf. A82, for the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen is sailed from Carrara to Leghorn.
23.7.1833 - 28.7.1833 The corvette Galathea is in Naples.
31.7.1833 Elected member of Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab (The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries).
Not later than August 1833 Sketch The Invention of the Movable Types, C395 for the relief, A115. Part of the Gutenberg Monument, A114.
Not later than August 1833 Sketches of clay models of the monument Johann Gutenberg, A114 are sent to the Gutenberg Commission.
Begun August 1833 Maximilian 1., A128.
4.8.1833 - 6.8.1833 The corvette Galathea spends two days in quarantine before entering the port of Livorno.
7.8.1833 The corvette Galathea is loaded with 65 crates containing several of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Not earlier than 8.8.1833 The corvette Galathea leaves Leghorn bound for Copenhagen, carrying 65 crates with Thorvaldsen’s art works.
Autumn 1833 Ludvig Bødtcher helps Thorvaldsen in legal matters concerning his testament.
Autumn 1833 Sketch of The Invention of the Printing Press, A118 (preparatory work for A116, executed by H.W. Bissen). Part of the Gutenberg Monument, A114.
Autumn 1833 - 28.6.1834 The Invention of the Printing Press, A116 is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision. Part of the Gutenberg Monument, A114.
Autumn 1833 - 28.6.1834 The Invention of the Movable Types, A115 is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision. Part of the Gutenberg Monument, A114.
14.9.1833 Attends the opening of Raphael’s grave in the Pantheon. The event is depicted in Francesco Diofebi’s painting, B73, the tomb itself is shown in E1100.
20.9.1833 The corvette Galathea arrives in Copenhagen, carrying 65 crates with Thorvaldsen’s art works.
5.10.1833 H.C. Andersen sees in Campo Santo in Pisa Thorvaldsen’s newly erected funerary monument to Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri, cf. A613
18.10.1833 H.C. Andersen arrives in Rome.
18.10.1833 Attends the re-funeral of Rafael in the Pantheon. H.C. Andersen sees Thorvaldsen for the first time.
19.10.1833 H.C. Andersen visits Thorvaldsen in Casa Buti, introduced by Christen Christensen.
Completed 20.10.1833 Monument to Raphael, A611.
21.10.1833 Christen Christensen works on an unknown portrait of Thorvaldsen.
22.10.1833 Awarded the silver cross of the Order of Dannebrog.
23.10.1833 Attends a soirée at the residence of Princess Charlotte Frederikke, where H.C. Andersen reads from his works.
26.10.1833 Asks Jonas Collin for help in financial matters.
27.10.1833 H.C. Andersen sees Thorvaldsen’s monument to Pius 7. in St. Peter’s, cf. A142, A143, A144, A145, A146 and A147.
7.11.1833 H.C. Andersen visits Thorvaldsen’s studios and sees Psyche in plaster, A26, and George Gordon Byron in marble, cf. A130.
Middle of November 1833 Christ in marble, cf. A82, is taken to the Church of Our Lady but is not erected until spring 1839.
18.11.1833 Attends a party in the Ponte Molle Society with Scandinavian and German artists, among them H.C. Andersen.
28.11.1833 Attends a magnificent party at the Palazzo Torlonia in Piazza Venezia given by Anna Maria Torlonia. H.C. Andersen and Horace Vernet are among the guests.
6.12.1833 Visits H.C. Andersen, who reads his Agnete and the Merman. Also present are H.W. Bissen, Fritz Petzholdt, Andreas Ludvig Koop and Henrik Hertz.
24.12.1833 Celebrates Christmas Eve at the Villa Borghese with a party of Scandinavian artists, including H.C. Andersen, Ditlev Blunck, Johan Niklas Byström, Ludvig Bødtcher, Christen Christensen, Thomas Fearnley, Henrik Hertz, and J.L. Jensen, Carl Gustaf Plagemann, Ludvig Zeuthen.
Begun 1834 Horace Vernet, A253.
1834 Children Praying, for the Monument to Artur Potocki, A628.
1834 Luke, A577.
1834 Mark, A576.
1834 Bronze versions of the reliefs Hovering Angels (A590 and A591) are placed at the high altar of the Basilica di S. Gaudenzio, Novara.
Not earlier than 1834 Bacchante and a Satyr, A354.
1834 - 1838 Leonardo Fibonacci, A187.
1834 - 1838 Leonardo Fibonacci, A722.
1.1.1834 His grandson Alberto is born.
1.1. - 8.1.1834 Nemesis attended by the Genii of Punishment and Reward, A364, for Heinrich Mylius’ funerary monument to his son Julius.
2.1.1834 His grandson Alberto is baptized in St. Peter’s. Charlotte Frederikke is godmother and Thorvaldsen and Luigi Chiaveri godfathers.
8.1.1834 H.C. Andersen visits Thorvaldsen, who encourages him. Andersen gives his poem The Dying Child to the sculptor.
15.1.1834 Thorvaldsen is about to fall from a scaffold during the modelling of the horse for the monument to Maximilian 1. (A128).
24.1.1834 Elected member of the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa.
28.1.1834 Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated by Princess Charlotte Frederikke and the Danes living in Rome. Thorvaldsen is probably present.
February 1834 Gives up his plans for returning to Denmark this winter.
Begun 3.2.1834 - completed 28.6.1834 The statue for the monument Johann Gutenberg, A114. Clay model for the plaster cast, cf. A117 is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision.
11.2.1834 Frederik 6. approves Thorvaldsen’s donation of his own works and collections to Denmark.
March - May 1834 Walter Scott, cf. A255, marble, 58 cm, National Galleries of Scotland.
8.3.1834 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Society of Danish Romans at Christianshavns Borgerdydsskole without the sculptor’s presence. 31 men attend. A song by Christian Winther and a song to Thorvaldsen by F.C. Hillerup are sung.
29.3.1834 Walks with H.C. Andersen in Rome.
31.3.1834 Says goodbye to the departing H.C. Andersen, writes a greeting in his album, and shows him Nemesis attended by the Genii of Punishment and Reward, A364.
18.4.1834 Elected honorary member of the Accademia dei Filomati di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti in Lucca.
Summer 1834 Huntress on a Horse, A647.
2.8.1834 H.W. Bissen leaves Rome.
Autumn 1834 G.F. Hetsch drafts a proposal for the conversion of the ruins of the Marble Church into a museum dedicated to Thorvaldsen.
Beginning of October 1834 Ludwig 1. besøger Thorvaldsen i Rom.
23.10.1834 Receives a visit from Martinus Rørbye and Ditlev Blunck.
26.10.1834 Is godfather to Adam Gottlob Moltke-Huitfeldt’s (1798-1876) son, Vladimir von Moltke-Huitfeldt (1834-1894), in the German Protestant chapel, Palazzo Caffarelli, Rom.
Completed November 1834 Hunter on a Horse, A646.
1.12.1834 Visits Horace Vernet’s workshop in the company of Peter Wulff and Martinus Rørbye.
Not later than 18.12.1834 Monument to the two Poninski Children, A617, prepatory work for A616.
1835 Lyre, A708.
1835 The Genius of Poetry, A526.
1835 Receives a visit from the French author Alexandre Dumas père during the latter’s journey through Italy.
1835 - 1836 Charlotte Dorothea Fischer, A871.
1835 - 1846 Thorvaldsen’s “Pre-Museum” at Christiansborg Palace.
Presumably completed January 1835 Horace Vernet paints Portrait of Thorvaldsen modelling the bust of Vernet, B95.
January 1835 The marble version of George Gordon Byron, AX682, arrives in London, but is not placed in Westminster Abbey due to controversies about Byron’s reputation.
28.1.1835 Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated by Danes in Rome. A song by Ludvig Bødtcher is sung.
31.1.1835 Attends Horace Vernet’s farewell party in the Palazzo Ruspoli. Vernet is fined 100 scudi for breaking the fast.
Beginning of February 1835 Horace Vernet leaves Rome.
18.2.1835 Possibly at the theatre to see Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard’s play Der Jahrmarkt zu Borgo di Trastullo.
8.3.1835 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Cociety of Danish Romans at Christianshavns Borgerdydsskole without the sculptor’s presence. 45 men attend. A song about Rome and Thorvaldsen by H.C. Andersen and two songs by F.C. Hillerup are sung.
18.3.1835 Awarded honorary citizenship of Mainz, cf. N35. Does not receive the diploma until his visit to the city 1.7.1841.
20.4.1835 Elected honorary member of the Accademia Aretina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Arezzo.
27.4.1835 Signs a contract with Helena Poninska for the Monument to the two Poninski Children, cf. A616.
Beginning of May 1835 The frigate Bellona leaves Copenhagen.
Summer 1835 Friedrich Schiller, A138, preparatory work for A770.
8.6.1835 The frigate Bellona reaches Leghorn.
9.7.1835 The frigate Bellona leaves Leghorn bound for Copenhagen, carrying Thorvaldsen’s works.
20.7.1835 Honorary member of the Società Petrarchina di Scienze e Belle Arti in Arezzo.
Autumn 1835 Monument to the two Poninski Children is begun, cf. A616 and A917.
Autumn 1835 The Judgement of Solomon, A554.
September 1835 The Resurrection, A561.
5.9.1835 The frigate Bellona arrives in Copenhagen with some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
9.9.1835 Formanden for Schiller-foreningen udtrykker glæde over Karl von Kolbs beskrivelse af den færdige skitse til Schiller-statuen, A138.
End of October 1835 The Danish merchant Hans Puggaard arrives in Rome with his wife, the painter Bolette Puggaard, and his daughter Marie. Together with a young relative, they spend six months in the city – often in Thorvaldsen’s company.
1.11.1835 Receives a visit from the Puggaard family.
2.11.1835 Shows the Puggaard family round his studios, where work is being done on Maximilian I., A128.
Gathers roses in his garden for Marie and Bolette Puggaard.
5.11.1835 Evening party at the house of the Puggaard family in Via degli Avignonesi.
Presumably 23.11.1835 Aftenselskab hos familien Puggaard. Møder her Constantin Hansen, der lige er ankommet til Rom.
Presumably winter 1835 - 1836 Restores the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Campidoglio.
Not earlier than December 1835 - not later than February 1836 Thomas Dyke Acland and Lydia Elizabeth, neé Hoare (1786-1856) acquire or are given two terracotta reliefs of Night , cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, as a remembrance of their stay in Rome. The reliefs are still in the library of the Ackland family’s former home Killerton House, Devon, England.
13.12.1835 Attends an evening party at the house of the Puggaard family, along with the German painters Joh. Christian Reinhart and Franz Ludwig Catel. The daughter of the house Marie serves pancakes.
22.12.1835 Elected member of the Koninklijk Instituut van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam.
24.12.1835 Celebrates Christmas with the other Danes in Rome, among them the Puggaard family, the painters Jørgen V. Sonne, who made the Christmas porridge, Ditlev Blunck and Fritz Petzholdt.
End of 1835 Marble version of Nemesis Attended by the Genii of Punishment and Reward, cf. A364, is completed and placed in Julius Mylius’ chapel in Loveno.
Presumably 1836 The Hovering Graces, A338.
1836 Cupid with the Lyre, A33, copy in marble presumably executed by Johann Scholl after A786.
1836 The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, A601.
1836 The Gutenberg Monument, cf. A114, A115, A116 cast in bronze by Charles Crozatier (1795-1855) in Paris.
1836 Alteration of the original model Jason With the Golden Fleece, A52, from 1802-03.
Beginning of 1836 Childhood or Spring, A642.
Beginning of 1836 Manhood or Autumn, A644.
Beginning of 1836 Faith, Hope and Charity, A599.
Beginning of 1836 Youth or Summer, A643.
Presumably January 1836 Old Age or Winter, A645.
10.1.1836 Attends a merry party in the evening along with Joseph Anton Koch, Ditlev Blunck, Fritz Petzholdt, the Puggaard family, and others. Plays the tambourine and dances.
6.2.1836 Dines at the house the Puggaard family.
7.2.1836 Carneval celebration at the house of the Puggaard family in Via degli Avignonesi, in the company of Ditlev Blunck, Constantin Hansen, Ferdinand Flor, Fritz Petzholdt, Leopold Pollack, and others.
8.3.1836 Celebrates his Roman birthday at the house of the Puggaard family in Rome with tableaux inspired by his own and Raphael’s works and arranged by Ferdinand Flor. Song by Heinrich Jakob Fried. Music with lyrics by Scipione Barberi. The text for a song by Henrik Hertz for the same date suggests that a party was held in Denmark that same evening.
8.3.1836 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Society of Danish Romans at Christianshavns Borgerdydsskole without the sculptor’s presence. Prologue by Jørgen Jørgensen, a song by H.C. Andersen and another one about Rome and Thorvaldsen by Henrik Hertz are sung.
10.3.1836 Visits the Puggaard family and gives Marie Puggaard an antique ring with a reproduction of The Goddess of Hope, cf. A47.
11.3.1836 Visits Bolette Puggaard.
23.3.1836 Excursion to Nemi and Monte Gentile near Ariccia, arranged by the Puggaard family.
31.3.1836 Thorvaldsen’s post as director of Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen) is extended.
7.4.1836 Visits the Puggaard family in the evening.
22.4.1836 Evening party at the house of the Puggaard family.
24.4.1836 Takes leave of the Puggaard family, who set out for Naples at 5 o’clock in the morning.
Presumably summer 1836 Apollo, A326.
Presumably summer 1836 Conradin, A150.
Presumably summer 1836 Erato, Muse of Lyric and Love Poetry, A333.
Presumably summer 1836 Euterpe, Muse of Music, A329.
Presumably summer 1836 Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry, A336.
Presumably summer 1836 Clio, Muse of History, A328.
Presumably summer 1836 The Genius of Light with Pegasus, A327.
Presumably summer 1836 Maximilian 1., cf. A128, is completed.
Presumably summer 1836 Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy, A331.
Presumably summer 1836 Minerva, A325.
Presumably summer 1836 Mnemosyne and Harpocrates, A337.
Presumably summer 1836 Polyhymnia, Muse of Religious Poetry, A334.
Presumably summer 1836 Terpsichore, Muse of Dancing, A332.
Presumably summer 1836 Thalia, Muse of Comedy, A330.
Presumably summer 1836 Urania, Muse of Astronomy, A335.
Presumably autumn 1836 Arranges the collections in the Museo Gregoriano Estrusco, which opens in 1837.
Autumn 1836 Alexander the Great Sets Fire to Persepolis, A516, reworked version of A515.
Not later than September 1836 Maximilian 1., cf. A128, arrives in Munich.
Not later than 9.9.1836 Friedrich Schiller, cf. A770, modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä, is completed.
Not later than 9.9.1836 The Apotheosis of Friedrich Schiller, A135, is modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä.
Not later than 9.9.1836 Griffin and Lyre, A707, modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä.
Not later than 9.9.1836 The Genius of Poetry, A136, is modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä.
Not later than 9.9.1836 The Goddess of Victory, A137, is modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä.
Winter 1836 - 1837 Achilles and Patroclus, A494.
Winter 1836 - 1837 Achilles and Penthesilia, A496.
31.12.1836 The Accademia di S. Luca decides to strike a gold medal in Thorvaldsen’s honour, F8. The medal depicts the emblem of the academy and the art of painting, St. Luke the evangelist, after Thorvaldsen’s relief, A581.
End of December 1836 Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum (The Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum) is appointed.
Presumably 1837 Amor, Jupiter and Juno, cf. A394, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome.
Presumably 1837 Briseis and Achilles, cf. A491, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome.
Presumably 1837 Hector with Paris and Helen, cf. A500, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome.
Presumably 1837 Hector and Andromache, cf. A501, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome.
Presumably 1837 Hylas and the Water Nymphs, cf. A483, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome.
Presumably 1837 Ulysses Receiving the Arms of Achilles, cf. A498, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome.
Presumably 1837 Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector’s Body, cf. A492, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome.
Presumably 1837 Venus, Mars and Cupid in the Smithy of Vulcan, cf. A419, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome.
1837 Head of a Woman with Tiara, A723.
1837 Maximilian 1., cf. A128, is cast in bronze by Stiegelmayer in munich.
1837 The Invention of the Movable Types, A115 (part of the Gutenberg Monument, cf. A114) is sent from the bronze caster Charles Crozatier (1795-1855) to Frankfurt am Main, where it is prepared by J.J. Barth (? after 1837) and cast by J.G.B. Beyer (? after 1860).
1837 Frederik Siegfried Vogt, A221.
1837 Frederik Siegfried Vogt, A222.
1837 Carlo Torlonia commissions a series of bas-reliefs for Castelgandolfo, the villa of the Torlonia family. The reliefs are executed during the years 1838-1842 by Pietro Galli after Thorvaldsen’s sketches.
1837 Wilhelm 1. commissions marble versions of Childhood or Spring, cf. A642, Youth or Summerer, cf. A643, Manhood or Autumn, cf. A644, Old Age or Winter, cf. A645, Shepherdess with a Nest of Cupids, cf. A425, and Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, cf. A780. Today all in the Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart.
Not earlier than 1837 Achilles and Penthesilia, A495.
Not earlier than 1837 Old Age or Winter, A641.
Not earlier than 1837 Childhood or Spring, A638 og A910.
Not earlier than 1837 Manhood or Autumn, A640.
Not earlier than 1837 Youth or Summer, A639.
Beginning of 1837 Briseis and Achilles, A491, reworked version of A490.
Beginning of 1837 Chiron and Achilles, A488.
Beginning of 1837 Hector with Paris and Helen, A500, reworked version of A499.
Beginning of 1837 Hector and Andromache, A501.
Beginning of 1837 Homer Singing for the People, A502.
Beginning of 1837 The Genius of Justice, A531.
Beginning of 1837 The Genius of Governmemt, A530.
Beginning of 1837 Thetis and Achilles, A487.
10.1.1837 Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum (The Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum) initiates a national collection, i.e. an ‘Invitation to contribute to a museum for Thorvaldsen’.
Not later than 29.1.1837 Presents a version of the relief Cupid on the Lion’s Back, cf. A388 or A389 and A390 to Melchiorre Missirini.
30.1.1837 Awarded two silver medals and a gilt bronze medal by Gregory 16. for his efforts on behalf of Museo Gregoriano Etrusco.
8.2.1837 Awarded the grand cross of the Friedrich Order by Wilhelm 1. of Württemberg, N15.
Spring 1837 The Art Society in Frankfurt tries again to persuade Thorvaldsen to execute a Goethe monument; a project which, however, is abandoned.
25.3.1837 Thorvaldsen donates plaster casts to the Stuttgart Art School.
27.3.1837 A poem by Henrik Hertz for the benefit of the building of Thorvaldsens Museum is recited in the Royal Theatre as part of the evening’s programme.
Beginning of April 1837 Attends the Cervaro festival with 200 participants.
21.4. - 4.11.1837 Alexander the Great in his Chariot, cf. A508, commissioned in marble by Alessandro Torlonia. Now in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia, Rome. Executed by Johann Scholl.
12.5.1837 The Students’ Association performs a play for the benefit of the planned Thorvaldsens Museum. The performance takes place at Pettoletti’s Theatre in Vesterbro in København.
15.5.1837 The models for the Schiller monument arrives from Rome at Munich to be cast in bronze by Johann Baptist Stiglmaier at the Königliche Erzgießerei.
28.5.1837 On the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the establishment of the provincial consultative chambers, a celebration is held at the Royal Shooting Range in Copenhagen. A song is sung to Thorvaldsen, who is not present.
Summer 1837 Apollo and the Shepherds, A344.
Summer 1837 Bacchante with Bird, A648.
Summer 1837 Outbreak of cholera in Rome.
21.6.1837 The Comittee for the Establishment of Thorvaldsens Museum holds a general meeting in the Students’ Association in Copenhagen. A new board of 15 is elected.
24.6.1837 Gottlieb Bindesbøll sends a project for Thorvaldsens Museum to Jonas Collin.
1.7.1837 Ludwig 1. rejects the erection of the bronze casts of A530 and A531 on the pedestal of the Maximilian Monument (cf. A128).
4.7.1837 Goethe-kommissionen bestiller et monument for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe til byen Frankfurt am Main.
August 1837 Cupid and Hygieia, A372.
August 1837 Young Dancing Girl, A181.
August 1837 Young Dancing Girl, A182, preparatory work for A181.
Not earlier than August 1837 Cupid and Hygieia, A371.
August - September 1837 In company with the two german doctors Karl von Pfeuffer (1806-1869) og Lorenz Melchior Geist (1807-1867).
13.8.1837 - 16.8.1837 The Gutenberg Monument, cf. A114, A115, A116 is unveiled in Mainz at a four-day celebration. Thorvaldsen is not present.
Autumn 1837 Cupid with Roses and Thistles, A405.
Autumn 1837 Cupid with Roses and Thistles, A406, reworked version of A405.
October 1837 Excurion to La Storta outside Rome.
November 1837 Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel, A552, preparatory work for A551.
9.11.1837 Honorary member of the Archaeological Society of Athens.
19.11.1837 In Rome, Thorvaldsen is celebrated by numerous friends on his birthday. He shows his new relief Adam and Eva with Cain and Abel, A552.
27.11.1837 Meets the English painter George Richmond.
Winter 1837 - 1838 Thorvaldsen meets Frances Mackenzie again in Rome, and they are reconciled.
9.12.1837 Receives a visit from Sulpiz Boisserée.
Presumably 1838 Martin Luther, A160.
Presumably 1838 Pan and a Nymph, A356.
Presumably 1838 Philipp Melanchton, A161.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Adonis, A476, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Agriculture, A543, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Actaeon Torn by his Dogs, A461, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Actaeon Torn by his Dogs, A779, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Cupid and the Sleeping Psyche, A434, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Cupid and the Sleeping Psyche, A437, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Cupid and the Sleeping Psyche, A438, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Cupid and Diana, A465, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Cupid Reviving Psyche, A446, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Apollo and Daphne, A478, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Astronomy, A544, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Atalanta, A473, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Chione and Daedalion, A464, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Dancing, A536, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Diana Killing Orion, A462, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Diana with her Hind, A459, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Diana Surprised at her Bath, A460, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Endymion, A466, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Trade, A540, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Gardening, A542, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Heros, A475, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Jupiter’s Eagle and Psyche, A443, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Callisto, A472, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Comedy, A534, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of War, A538, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Flight of Latona, A458, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Medicine, A541, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Meleager, A474, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Music, A535, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Narcissus and Cupid, A477, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Nymph with Bow, A467, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Nymph with a Torch, A470, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Hunting Nymph, A471, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Nymph with Arrow, A468, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Nymph and a Young Girl, A469, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Orion Dying, A463, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Pan and Cupid, A479, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1837-1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Poetry, A532, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Psyche and Cupid, A440, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Psyche and Cupid, A448, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Psyche and Cerberus, A445, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Psyche and Charon, A444, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Psyche and her Sisters, A439, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Psyche and Mercury, A447, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Psyche and Pan, A441, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Psyche’s Father and the Oracle, A435, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Religion, A545, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Six Genii, A547, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Governmemt, A537, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Seven Genii, A546, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Navigation, A539, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 The Genius of Tragedy, A533, relief modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Venus and Cupid, A433, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Venus and Psyche, A442, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
Presumably 1838 - 1842 Zephyr and Psyche, A436, modelled by Pietro Galli after a drawing by Thorvaldsen from 1838.
1838 Child’s Head, A907.
1838 Christ, A882.
Not earlier than 1838 Pan and a Nymph, A728.
Beginning of 1838 Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel, A551.
Beginning of 1838 Vulkan, A9.
20.1.1838 Accepts the offer to sail to Copenhagen on board the frigate Rota in the summer of 1838.
24.1.1838 Elected member of the learned society in Providence, Rhode Island Historical Society.
Not later than April 1838 Vulcan, A8 in marble is begun in Thorvaldsen’s Roman workshop. The statue was later transported to Copenhagen and completed 1861.
Originally planned as a never realized decoration inside Christiansborg Palace consisting of Vulcan, and versions of Mars and Cupid, cf. A6, and Venus with the Apple, cf. A853.
22.6.1838 A cargo ship from Rome arrives at Leghorn with 62 crates with Thorvaldsen’s art which are to be reloaded to the frigate Rota in order to be transported to Copenhagen.
24.6.1838 Receives a visit from August Gottlieb Eberhard.
10.7.1838 The frigate Rota reaches Leghorn.
Not earlier than 10.7.1838 - not later than 4.8.1838 At the request of Angelo Maria Ricci, among others, Thorvaldsen models a portrait medallion of Lucrezia Ripanti.
23.7.1838 Rudolf Lützow issues Thorvaldsen’s passport.
5.8.1838 Starts his journey back to Copenhagen, leaving Rome at midnight via Civitavecchia to Leghorn. Accompanied by Wilhelm Matthiä and Blunck.
9.8.1838 The frigate Rota leaves Leghorn bound for Copenhagen, with Thorvaldsen and his travelling companions on board.
Middle of August 1838 Pietro Galli and his family move temporarily into Thorvaldsen’s rooms in Casa Buti during Thorvaldsen’s stay in Denmark.
10.9.1838 Appointed “konferensråd” (honorary title, now obsolete) on board of the frigate Rota. Thorvaldsen receives the message 16.9.1838.
15.9.1838 The Rota lies to near Hammermøllen, north west of Elsinore.
16.9.1838 The Rota anchors north west of Elsinore waiting for favourable currents and winds. Thorvaldsen attends a Danish-Swedish celebration in his honour on board the steamship Dronning Marie. Two songs for the sculptor are sung.
17.9.1838 The frigate Rota is towed round Kronborg in the morning, and is greeted by cheers of hurray and music in boats from Helsingborg. Passes Trekroner at Copenhagen in the afternoon.
17.9.1838 Amid great jubilation, Thorvaldsen disembarks at the Copenhagen Custom House after 42 years of exile.
17.9.1838 On the balcony of Charlottenborg Thorvaldsen is cheered by a crowd in Kongens Nytorv.
17.9.1838 Young artists pay tribute to Thorvaldsen with a torchlight procession in the Botanical Gardens behind Charlottenborg. A song by Christian Winther is sung.
17.9.1838 - 24.3.1844 Residence and workshop at Charlottenborg, 1 Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen. However, he lives alternately at Charlottenborg, at Nysø, and in Rome until his death.
18.9.1838 Joins the Academy of Fine Arts in a picnic to Sorgenfri and Bellevue celebrating the birthday of Christian (8.) Frederik.
19.9.1838 For the first time since his return Thorvaldsen acts as director of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, at a meeting in the academy. A welcome speech is held by Just Mathias Thiele.
Shown Christen Christensen’s Thorvaldsen Medal, F13, which is to be awarded to artists as the highest appraisal of the Academy of Fine Arts.
20.9.1838 Learns that he has been awarded honorary citizenship of Copenhagen by Just Henrik Mundt and Peder Johannes Friedenreich.
20.9.1838 Thorvaldsen’s crates and belongings are brought from the Custom House to Charlottenborg.
20.9.1838 Dines at Court with Christian 8. and Caroline Amalie.
24.9.1838 Elected honorary member of Studenterforeningen (The Students’ Association).
26.9.1838 Stays at home for several days due to an injury to his foot. Receives a visit from the painter C.W. Eckersberg.
End of September 1838 Party given by J.L.A. Kolderup-Rosenvinge.
1.10.1838 Attends a meeting in Akademiforsamlingen (the Fellows of the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen). Promises to furnish “the model of the month”.
2.10.1838 Honoured in the evening by about 70 members of De danske Romeres selskab (The Society of Danish Romans). The party takes place in the hall of Borups selskab, which for the occasion has been decorated as a Roman osteria. Two songs to Thorvaldsen by F.C. Hillerup and N.C.L. Abrahams are sung.
4.10.1838 Visits the assembly of the Estates of the Realm in Roskilde and attends in the afternoon a party with songs and speeches in Thorvaldsen’s honour. In the evening at the dinner of the delegates of the Estates of the Realm hosted by A.S. Ørsted. Later organ concert in the Cathedral of Roskilde.
5.10.1838 Visits the Cathedral of Roskilde again early in the morning. Travels 10.15 AM to Copenhagen.
5.10.1838 Attends J.P. Møller’s birthday party.
6.10.1838 Attends the quarterly meeting of Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab (The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries). Receives the book Antiquitates Americanæ (still in Thorvaldsen’s book collection, M575), with his genealogical table. Speech by Finnur Magnússon.
7.10.1838 Celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour for 300 guests at the Hotel d’Angleterre in Copenhagen with songs, poems, speeches etc. by Adam Oehlenschläger, J.L. Heiberg, H.C. Andersen, H.P. Holst, Thomas Overskou, and N.F.S. Grundtvig.
10.10.1838 The completion of the bronze casting of Friedrich Schiller, cf. A770, is celebrated in Munich with a big party for bronze casters and artists in the city. Thorvaldsen is not present.
12.10.1838 The governors of the University of Copenhagen offer Thorvaldsen 34.000 rix-dollars for the completion of his works for the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.
13.10.1838 Celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour in Studenterforeningen (The Students’ Association) with several songs by Ole Bang, Adam Oehlenschläger, H.C. Andersen, F.J. Hansen, and H.P. Holst.
16.10.1838 Mht. den endnu manglende udsmykning af Vor Frue Kirke tilbyder Thorvaldsen de 12 apostle og fire profeter i marmor, frisen Vandringen til Golgatha evt. i brændtler og to statuer til vestibulen. Betalingen skal gå til Thorvaldsens Museum.
23.10.1838 Present at the installation of the pediment group Johannes Døberens prædiken, modelled 1821-1822, jf. A59, A60, A61, A62, A63, A64, A65, A66, A67, A68, A69 og A70, above the main entrance to the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.
24.10.1838 Attends an afternoon gathering at J.S. Møsting’s house in the company of the professors of the Academy of Fine Arts, including C.W. Eckersberg.
24.10.1838 Honoured by the members of Borups Selskab (The Dramatic and Literary Society, Borup’s Society)
25.10.1838 Dinner with the architect C.F. Hansen, the painter C.W. Eckersberg, and others.
31.10.1838 Attends a private party. Oehlenschläger writes a song for the occasion.
Presumably November 1838 C.F. Wilckens is engaged as Thorvaldsen’s valet.
Not earlier than November 1838 Engages Charlotte Amalie Wilckens (ca 1809-1867) as housekeeper.
19.11.1838 The pediment group for the facade of the cathedral of Copenhagen, John the Baptist Preaching, A59-A70, is unveiled. Installed by H.E. Freund.
19.11.1838 Thorvaldsen invites the members of De danske Romeres Selskab (The Society of Danish Romans) to celebrate his birthday. The party is held in Copenhagen. Songs by N.C.L. Abrahams and F.C. Hillerup are sung.
Not later than 20.11.1838 The vicar C.H. Visby (1801-1871) asks Thorvaldsen to intercede with Frederik 6. for the robber and murderer Petri Worm (1814-1838).
21.11.1838 Awarded honorary citizenship of Copenhagen at the city hall, cf. diploma N36. Later a celebration at The Royal Shooting Range.
22.11.1838 Kunstforeningen af 1825 (The Art Society of Copenhagen) arranges a competition for a painting with the subject: “Thorvaldsen’s Arrival and Reception at the Copenhagen Custom House”. The winner is Fritz Westphal’s Thorvaldsen’s Reception at the Custom House on September 17, 1838, B453.
26.11.1838 Probably present at Grundtvig’s historical lectures at Borch’s Kollegium, Copenhagen.
December 1838 Intervenes in the competition for the gold medal of the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, in favour of Adam Müller, who receives a special travel grant to Rome.
4.12.1838 Receives a visit from the painter C.W. Eckersberg and shows him some of the works of art brought home from Rome.
7.12.1838 Tea party at the home of factory manager O.J. Rawert (1786-1851) together with C.W. Eckersberg and many others.
10.12.1838 Visits the painter C.W. Eckersberg and sees a version of the painting Thorvaldsen’s Arrival in the Copenhagen Roadstead, September 17th 1838, cf. B217, which pleases him.
11.12.1838 Sends a deed of gift to the corporation of Copenhagen, thereby donating his works and collections to the city.
11.12.1838 Visits the painter C.W. Eckersberg, who on that day has begun work on the painting Thorvaldsen’s Arrival in the Copenhagen Roadstead, September 17th 1838, B217.
19.12.1838 The corporation of Copenhagen thanks Thorvaldsen for the bequest.
21.12.1838 Receives a visit from the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg.
22.12.1838 Attends Akademiforsamlingen (The Fellows of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen), where the decision is made to give a travel grant to the painter Heinrich Eddelien in preference to Adam Müller. Furthermore, the architect Gottlieb Bindesbøll is unanimously elected member of the academy. Afterwards Thorvaldsen joins the other professors in a banquet with Prince Christian (8.) Frederik.
24.12.1838 The governors of the University of Copenhagen commission Jude Thaddeus, cf. A105, Andrew, cf. A108 og Christ on the Road to Calvary, cf. A560, plus Martin Luther, A188 and Philipp Melanchton, A161. Four statues of prophets are also commissioned but not executed.
30.12.1838 At Jørgen Koch’s suggestion, Frederik 6. donates a carriage yard, which forms the foundation of Thorvaldsens Museum.
End of 1838 The Child’s Guardian Angel, A596.
Presumably 1839 Bertel Thorvaldsen, A880, fragment of a sketch. Thorvaldsen’s head from the preparatory model, Nysø36, of Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope.
Presumably 1839 Aesculapius, A784, fragment of A20.
Presumably 1839 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, A139.
Presumably 1839 Frederik 6. encourages Thorvaldsen to stay in Copenhagen.
Presumably 1839 - 1840 Wilckens starts collecting Thorvaldsen memorabilia.
Presumably 1839 - 1840 Wilckens saves locks of Thorvaldsen’s hair.
Presumably 1839 - 1840 Nominates Emilius Bærentzen for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, but Bærentzen does not receive enough votes.
Presumably 1839 - 1841 Buys several vedute (cityscapes) by H.G.F. Holm, e.g. D836.
Presumably 1839 - 1841 Doctor Joachim Lund Drejer (1792-1853) has Thorvaldsen make a plaster cast of the sculptor’s juvenile work, A864, Ernst Heinrich Løffler, A630.
Presumably 1839 - 1841 The pantomimist Adolph Price (1805-1890) creates tableaux vivants after Thorvaldsen’s works and collections. Thorvaldsen sees several of Price’s pantomimes.
Presumably 1839 - 1843 A.B. Rothe gives Thorvaldsen Tyge Rothe, A225.
Presumably 1839 - 1843 Oehlenschläger writes a poem on The Ages of Love, A426.
Presumably 1839 - 1843 Gives C.F. Høyer the bust of his mother, Sophie Dorothea Høyer, A763.
1839 Boy Sitting on a Stair, Nysø65, preparatory work for A560.
1839 Child Walking with Palm Branch, Nysø67, preparatory work for A560.
1839 Hercules, A16, first preparatory work for A14.
1839 Head of apostle, Nysø92, preparatory work for Nysø18.
1839 Minerva, A18, first model of A17.
1839 Nemesis, A19a, first model of A19.
1839 Perseus and Andromeda, A486.
1839 Young Man with Palm Branches in his Arm, Nysø68, preparatory work for A560.
1839 Aesculapius, A21, first model of A20.
1839 G.F. Hetsch suggests the subject of Christ on the Road to Calvary, A560, for the altar-niche of the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.
1839 Models sketches of four colossal statues for Christiansborg Palace (A16, A18, A19a, A21).
1839 - 1840 Horse’s head and warrior, A64.
1839 - 1840 Head of a child, Nysø99, preparatory work for A559.
1839 - 1842 Olympus, Nysø57, preparatory work for Pietro Galli’s sculpture, G5.
1839 - 1843 Merchant Carl Adolf Ollendorff (1816-1902) gives the museum a Grandfather Clock, N150, made by Thorvaldsen.
1839 - 1844 Cupid blowing a horn, Nysø81.
2.1.1839 Attends the 56th birthday party of the Danish painter C.W. Eckersbergs. A toast to Thorvaldsen is proposed.
6.1.1839 Receives a visit from the painter C.W. Eckersberg and his daughters.
14.1.1839 Meeting in the Comittee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsens Museum attended by Thorvaldsen.
18.1.1839 Dines at the home of J.S. Møsting in the company of Joseph Hambro, the zoologist J. Reinhardt (1776-1845), the philologist Carl Christian Rafn, Johan Gunder Adler, C.W. Eckersberg, and others.
20.1.1839 Received in the Royal Theatre. Prologue by Adam Oehlenschläger is recited.
29.1.1839 Receives a visit from the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg.
February 1839 Marble version of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, arrives in Iceland and is installed in the cathedral in Reykjavik.
6.2.1839 Receives a visit from the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg.
8.2.1839 Is godfather to Carl Christian Nielsen Grenaae’s (1798-?) daughter, Thorvaldine Wilhelmine Juliane Grenaae (1839-presumably 1839), in Garnison Church, Copenhagen.
16.2.1839 Receives a visit from the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg.
17.2.1839 Sits for his portrait by C.A. Jensen Portrait of the Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. Today at the Museum of National History, Fredriksborg Castle, inv.no. A 80.
Presumably spring 1839 J.V. Gertner draws Thorvaldsen at Charlottenborg, e.g. D825.
Spring 1839 Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, is consecrated in the cathedral in Reykjavik.
Spring 1839 H.E. Freund erects the marble Christ, cf. A82, in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.
Spring 1839 Apostles in plaster are replaced by marble versions, the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.
2.3.1839 Visits the painter C.W. Eckersberg.
8.3.1839 Receives a visit from C.W. Eckersberg, who introduces Hans Henrik Dithmer.
8.3.1839 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the society of De danske Romeres in Copenhagen . The artist is hosting 48 guests. Two songs
16.3.1839 Attends a party given by the Danish officer Joseph Abrahamson. Accompanied home by C.W. Eckersberg at 2 am.
24.3.1839 The Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, is reopened with the completed decorations, i.e. the newly installed marble sculptures by Thorvaldsen.
24.3.1839 Thorvaldsen is godfather to Hermann Ernst Freund’s daughter in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen. The Baptismal Angel Kneeling, cf. A112, is being used for a baptism for the first time.
April 1839 Christine Stampe møder Thorvaldsen hos sin svigerfamilie, Susette og J.F. Schouw på Charlottenborg. De aftaler, at han skal besøge Nysø.
25.4.1839 The evening before General Prayer Day (Danish public holiday). Visits Antoinette Thomasine Liebenberg, and goes for a walk on the ramparts (popular activity on this particular day in Copenhagen) with his goddaughter, Maria Liebenberg and her brother F.L. Liebenberg.
26.4.1839 Receives a visit from the painter C.W. Eckersberg.
28.4.1839 Is godfather to Georg Daniel von Hindenburg’s son, Albert Thorvald Hindenburg (1839-1906) in Garnison Church, Copenhagen.
30.4.1839 Attends the wedding party of Heinrich Eddelien.
Beginning of May 1839 The corvette Galathea sails from Copenhagen bound for Leghorn in order to fetch Thorvaldsen’s works.
3.5.1839 Dines at the house of Jørgen Koch in the company of Adam Oehlenschläger, Hans Puggaard, A.C. Kierulff, C.W. Eckersberg, and others.
4.5.1839 First honorary member of De Massmanske Søndagsskoler.
8.5.1839 Concert in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, celebrating the unveiling of the Schiller monument, cf. A770, in Stuttgart the same day. The surplus from the concert goes to the future Thorvaldsens Museum.
Song by Oehlenschläger and music by Weyse etc. is performed.
8.5.1839 The Schiller monument, cf. A770, is unveiled in Stuttgart.
16.5.1839 Is godfather to Just Mathias Thiele’s son, Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (1838-1910), in Christiansborg Palace Church.
20.5.1839 Becomes godfather to Peder Brønnum Scavenius’ son, Jacob Frederik Scavenius (1838-1915), in Holtug Chuch near Store Heddinge.
27.5.1839 140 students from Lund University pay tribute to Thorvaldsen at Charlottenborg. He shows his studio museum.
28.5.1839 Attends the 28. Mai Selskabets political meeting at the Shooting Range in Copenhagen. Among the ca. 200 participants are: H.N. Clausen, H.P. Hansen, L.N. Hvidt, C.N. David, H.P. Holst and P.C. Stenersen Gad.
Summer 1839 Wilhelm 1. visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop and commissions a marble version of the statue Cupid and the Graces, cf. A29, Further, he buys the reliefs The Seasons, cf. A642, A643, A644, A645, Shepherdess with a Nest of Cupids, cf. A425, and Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, cf. A780. The reliefs are today at the Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart.
June - August 1839 Christ Blessing the Children, Nysø23.
Beginning of June 1839 Almost completes the modelling of Ludvig Holberg, A876.
2.6.1839 Evening party hosted by Susette and J.F. Schouw. H.C. Ørsted is among the guests. .
3.6.1839 Christine Stampe arrives in Copenhagen and invites Thorvaldsen to come with her to Nysø.
4.6.1839 From Copenhagen to Nysø Manor near Præstø, where he arrives for the first time after his return in 1838.
4.6.1839 - 24.3.1844 Residence at Nysø, near Præstø, South Zealand. However, he lives alternately at Nysø, at Charlottenborg, and in Rom until his death.
12.6. - 14.6.1839 Trip to Sorø.
13.6.1839 At Sorø Academy. The students sing a song to Thorvaldsen by B.S. Ingemann.
21.6.1839 Trip to Mogenstrup.
22.6.1839 After a dinner at Johan Ferdinand de Neergaard’s Thorvaldsen receives a visit from B.S. Ingemann, Lucie Ingemann and Carsten Hauch.
23.6.1839 Lunch at Nysø with songs for Thorvaldsen by Carsten Hauch and Peter Wulff. B.S. Ingemann was also present.
23.6.1839 Trip to Jungshoved.
23.6.1839 Impromptu evening party on Præstø Bay, where lights are floated in the water in Thorvaldsen’s honour.
Presumably 24.6.1839 Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope, Nysø36, preparatory model for Nysø1.
28.6. - 29.6.1839 From Nysø to Altona / Hamburg with Christine Stampe. Probably stays at the hotel Zum Holsteinischen Hause.
29.6.1839 Visits Conrad Hinrich Donner in Altona. They go to the opera for a performance of I puritani (The Puritans) by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835).
30.6.1839 Meets with Georg Ernst Harzen. Visits August Abendroth’s richly decorated mansion. At a large party in the evening.
July 1839 - 5.10.1839 Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope, Nysø1.
July 1839 - 5.10.1839 Head of Thorvaldsen, Nysø72, preparatory work for Nysø1.
1.7.1839 Large dinner party at Conrad Hinrich Donner’s with C.C. Zahrtmann, Sophie Elisabeth Zahrtmann, Christine Stampe, Peter von Scholten (1784-1854) and others.
2.7.1839 Lunch with the art dealers Georg Ernst Harzen and Matthias Commeter (1791–1869). Visits August Abendroth’s mansion in Hamburg once more.
2.7.1839 Departure from Altona / Hamburg bound for Lübeck.
3.7.1839 Arrival Copenhagen with the steamboat Frederik VI from Lübeck.
5.7.1839 Receives a visit from C.W. Eckersberg.
9.7.1839 From Copenhagen to Elsinore in the company of Christine Stampe, Henrik Stampe, Henrik Stampe, Holger Stampe-Charisius and Elise Stampe. Meets Christian Wulff and Henriette Wulff.
9.7.1839 Transfer to Helsingborg. Lunch in Ramlösa with Scanian dignitaries. From here via Höganäs to Kullen with the Stampe family. The party spends the night here.
10.7.1839 From Kullen via a visit to count Carl De Geer (1781–1861) at Kulla Gunnarstorp to Helsingborg – a party is held celebrating Thorvaldsen and Danish-Swedish brotherhood. Leaving Helsingborg the sculptor is cheered by a large crowd and an orchestra.
10.7.1839 In Elsinore the town council arranges a party at the Shooting Range celebrating Thorvaldsen with music, song and salutes.
11.7.1839 Travels from Elsinore to Copenhagen via Sorgenfri, where he visits Prince Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie.
Presumably 12.7.1839 From Copenhagen to Nysø.
Middle of July 1839 - August 1839 Kneeling Angel, A159.
Middle of July 1839 - September 1839 Thorvaldsen has his portrait painted by J.V. Gertner, probably Thorvaldsen modelling the bust of Adam Oehlenschläger, Dep.35, and Thorvaldsen in his studio, B430.
Presumably 19.7. - 23.7.1839 Trip to Møn with Adam Oehlenschläger and Hans Puggaard.
19.7.1839 Attends the 80th birthday of the merchant Christopher Friedenreich Hage at Stege. A large number of guests arrive from Copenhagen with the steam boat Queen Marie.
20.7.1839 Thorvaldsen and Adam Oehlenschläger are celebrated with a party and singing in Klinteskoven on Møn. Spends the night with Ole Johan Freuchen in his vicarage at Magleby.
21.7.1839 N.F.S. Grundtvig preaches in Udby church. Thorvaldsen, Adam Oehlenschläger, and Hans Puggaard are probably present .
23.7.1839 Returns to Nysø.
23.7.1839 Evening gathering at Nysø, including a song in Thorvaldsen’s honour probably written by A.C. Petersen.
24.7.1839 Thorvaldsen’s studio in the garden of Nysø – “Wayland’s smithy” – is inaugurated in the presence of Oehlenschläger, Grundtvig, Hans Puggaard and many others.
25.7.1839 Trip to Hollænderskoven.
26.7.1839 From Nysø to Sorø in the company of the Stampe family.
26.7.1839 With B.S. Ingemann and Adam Oehlenschläger, godfather to Carsten Hauch’s daughter, who is baptized “Albertine” after Thorvaldsen by N.F.S. Grundtvig in Sorø Klosterkirke.
27.7.1839 From Sorø to Nysø with Christine Stampe and her family.
End of July 1839 - 29.9.1839 Adam Oehlenschläger, A226, marked: “Nysøe den 29. Set. 1839”.
13.8.1839 G. Bindesbøll’s project for Thorvaldsens Museum is chosen by a majority of the members of the Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum (The Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum).
15.8.1839 H.C. Andersen arrives at Nysø.
16.8.1839 The clay model of Ludvig Holberg is cast in plaster, A876.
26.8.1839 Probably visits Gustav Holck-Winterfeldt (1802-1885) and Christiane Danneskiold-Samsøe (1809-1873) at Grevensvænge in the company of the Stampe family and H.C. Andersen. Return to Nysø the same evening.
26.8.1839 The corvette Galathea arrives in Copenhagen with 42 crates containing various casts of Thorvaldsen’s works and antique sculptures.
30.8.1839 Probably from Nysø to Gisselfeld for the celebration in honour of Crown Prince Christian (8.) Frederik and Crown Princess Caroline Amalie. In the company of, among others, the Stampe family and H.C. Andersen. Return to Nysø the same evening.
31.8.1839 From Nysø to Bregentved to celebrate Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie. In the company of, among others, the Stampe family and H.C. Andersen. Invited by Adam Wilhelm Moltke to spend the night there.
31.8.1839 Crates with plaster casts of both Thorvaldsen’s works and antique sculptures are unloaded from the recently arrived corvette Galathea and taken to Charlottenborg.
Autumn 1839 Head of Judas, Nysø96, preparatory work for A559.
Autumn 1839 Head of a bearded man, Nysø95, preparatory work for A559.
Autumn 1839 The Entry into Jerusalem, A559.
Autumn 1839 Perseus and Andromeda, A742.
Autumn 1839 - spring 1840 Christ on the Road to Calvary, A560.
1.9.1839 Taken from Bregentved to Køge by Adam Wilhelm Moltke in the company of Carl Stampe (1806-1880) and H.C. Andersen. On to Copenhagen from Køge.
2.9.1839 Visit from Christian (8.) Frederik at Charlottenborg during the unpacking of plaster casts from Rome.
2.9. - 4.9.1839 Supervises the unpacking and placing at Charlottenborg of both his own works and antique sculptures, which have arrived from Rome on board the corvette Galathea.
4.9.1839 Visits C.W. Eckersberg at Charlottenborg.
4.9.1839 Is godfather to H.N. Clausen’s daughter, Johanne Marie Elisabeth Clausen (1839-1918), in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.
4.9.1839 Leaves Copenhagen for Nysø in the evening, after having unpacked the plaster casts.
6.10.1839 Arrives in Copenhagen from Nysø.
8.10. - 11.10.1839 Attends a military manoeuvre in Copenhagen together with Christine and Henrik Stampe. Meets Frederik 6..
9.10.1839 Visits C.W. Eckersberg, who is working on the painting Thorvaldsen’s arrival in the Copenhagen roadstead, September 17th 1838, B217.
12.10.1839 Maximilian 1., cf. A128, is unveiled in the Wittelsbacherplatz in Munich.
15.10.1839 Goes to Nysø.
20.10.1839 The municipal authorities in Copenhagen adopt the final plans for the construction of Thorvaldsens Museum.
13.11.1839 Frederik 6. approves the final plans for the construction of Thorvaldsens Museum.
18.11.1839 Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog as the first artist ever. Thorvaldsen, however, is not presented with the cross until the following day, his birthday 19.11.1839 at Nysø.
19.11.1839 Woman and Boy with Palm Branch, Nysø66.
19.11.1839 Thorvaldsen’s birthday is celebrated at Nysø with tableaux-vivants, singing, and dancing. The Stampe family, Johan Ferdinand de Neergaard, Wilhelm Matthiä, Benjamin Wolff and others are present.
21.11.1839 Arrival in Copenhagen. A short stay in order to thank Frederik 6. for the Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog.
22.11.1839 Visits C.W. Eckersberg.
23.11.1839 Sees August Bournonville’s ballet The Festival in Albano in the Royal Theatre.
27.11.1839 Visits C.W. Eckersberg and pays 100 rix-dollars in advance for the painting Thorvaldsen’s arrival in the Copenhagen roadstead, September 17th 1838, B217.
Presumably 28.11.1839 Returns to Nysø from København.
End of November 1839 Short stay at Gisselfeld.
Not earlier than December 1839 Denmark, A550.
3.12.1839 Frederik 6. dies.
Not earlier than 3.12.1839 - beginning of January 1840 Frederik 6., A141.
5.12.1839 Thiele writes to Thorvaldsen immediately after the death of Frederik 6. and proposes that he create a monument to the late King. This proposal eventually results in Monument to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skanderborg Castle.
Completed 6.12.1839 Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe, A215.
24.12.1839 Christmas Eve at Nysø. Among those present are Henriette Wulff and Peter Wulff.
Completed 28.12.1839 Christ at Emmaus, Nysø18.
31.12.1839 New Year’s Eve at Nysø.
At the turn of 1839 - 40 The construction of Thorvaldsens Museum is begun.
End of December 1839 Visits to Nysø’s neighbouring manor houses, owned by the families Danneskiold-Samsøe at Gisselfeld, Wolff at Engelholm and Neergaard at Lindersvold.
End of 1839 Makes a draft for his coat of arms, which depicts the God Thor with his hammer, C559b, to be hung in Frederiksborg Castle. The device is Freedom and Love for the Fatherland. Cf. N152 and E2286.
Presumably 1840 - 1841 Participates in popinjay shooting at The Royal Shooting Range in the company of Crown Prince Frederik (7.) and others. Is presented with the order of The Royal Shooting Society the day before, N88.
1840 Head of Jeanina Emilie Stampe as Psyche, Nysø74, preparatory work for A174.
1840 Minerva and Prometheus, A323, reduced version of A319.
1840 Christian 8.s Coronation Medal, A711.
January - April 1840 Occasional trips from Nysø to Copenhagen in order to attend to his works for the Church of Our Lady.
January - June 1840 The Entry into Jerusalem, The Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, enlarged version of A559, started by H.E. Freund.
January - June 1840 Christ on the Road to Calvary, The Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, enlarged version of A560, executed by Andreas Kolberg and Gotthelf Borup under Thorvaldsen’s supervision.
1.1.1840 The Genius of the New Year, A548.
11.1.1840 From Nysø to Copenhagen on the occasion of Frederik 6.’s funeral. However, Thorvaldsen does not attend due to a bad foot.
15.1.1840 Watches the funeral procession for Frederik 6. from a window at Charlottenborg with, among others, Christine Stampe.
16.1.1840 Frederik 6. is entombed in Roskilde Cathedral.
18.1.1840 Christian 8. commissions a statue of Christian 4., cf. A152, for Roskilde Cathedral.
18.1.1840 Thorvaldsen pays tribute to Christian 8. six weeks after his accession to the throne. Thorvaldsen excuses himself on the plea that he has been at Nysø and also had a bad foot.
21.1.1840 Proposal for a monument to Frederik 6. in Jutland is published in Aarhus Stiftstidende. The proposal gives rise to a long discussion in newspapers in Jutland.
28.1.1840 Probably attends the funeral ceremony at the university for the late Frederik 6.
31.1.1840 Receives a visit from the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg.
31.1.1840 From Copenhagen to Nysø.
February - March 1840 Stays frequently in Copenhagen.
Presumably 5.2.1840 Gathering in Borups Selskab.
12.2.1840 Gathering in Borups Selskab.
13.2.1840 At 2 pm Christian 8. and Caroline Amalie visit Thorvaldsen’s studio at Charlottenborg to see his latest works from Nysø.
17.2.1840 Decides that C.F. Wilckens is to be engaged as attendant in the museum after Thorvaldsen’s death.
24.2.1840 Receives a visit from C.W. Eckersberg and pays 200 rix-dollars more in advance for the painting Thorvaldsen’s arrival in the Copenhagen roadstead, September 17th 1838, B217.
Presumably spring 1840 Cupid and Psyche, A450.
Spring 1840 Cupid and Hymen, A452, the subject reused on the medal F25.
8.3.1840 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated in Copenhagen. On Christine Stampe’s initiative he receives a Pompeian-inspired suite, N106-N119, with embroideries executed by 30 women.
21.3.1840 Elected member of the Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna in Stockholm.
31.3.1840 Attends Akademiforsamlingen (The Fellows of the Academy of Fine Arts) on the day of the foundation of the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
20.4.1840 Diana and Jupiter, A345.
20.4.1840 From Copenhagen to Nysø in order to celebrate Christine Stampe’s birthday.
24.4.1840 Hygiea and Cupid, A373 – also called Love and Health.
29.4.1840 From Nysø to Copenhagen with the Stampe family. Return to Nysø shortly after.
30.4.1840 Christian 8. inspects the progress of the statue of Christian 4., cf. A152.
Presumably May 1840 The Head of Christian 4., Nysø9a, preparatory work for A152.
Presumably May 1840 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, A140, alteration of A139.
Not later than May 1840 Cupid and Hymen, A453.
Not later than May 1840 Receives a commission for a monument to Napoleon 1., which, however, is not executed.
May 1840 Christian 4., plaster, Nysø9, sketch for A152.
4.5.1840 Is godfather to N.C.L. Abrahams’ søn, Albert Peter Carl Abrahams (1839-1909), in Garnison Church, Copenhagen.
19.5.1840 From Nysø to Copenhagen with the Stampe family.
22.5.1840 Participates in the celebration of Christian 8. and Caroline Amalie’s silver wedding.
Summer 1840 Attends a party at H.N. Clausen’s country house Søbakken on the Sound near Tårbæk. Salomon Ludwig Steinheim was also present.
Presumably June 1840 - March 1841 Satyr Dancing with a Bacchante, A357.
Presumably June 1840 - March 1841 Satyr Dancing with a Bacchante, A358.
4.6.1840 From Copenhagen to Nysø.
Not later than 24.6.1840 From Nysø to Copenhagen on the occasion of Christian 8.’s coronation.
24.6.1840 Receives a visit from the painter C.W. Eckersberg.
28.6.1840 Does not participate in the coronation of Christian 8. in Frederiksborg Chapel, allegedly because problems with dress regulations.
28.6.1840 Dinner at the home of Laurids Fog Muus (1795-1856) and Christiane Muus (1802-1859) instead of participating in the coronation.
End of June 1840 Several meetings with the Steffens family, once during an excursion to the Round Tower.
2.7.1840 From Copenhagen to Nysø.
13.7. - 16.7.1840 Henrich Steffens, A633.
13.7. - 16.7.1840 Heinrich Steffens and his family stay at Nysø for three days with Grundtvig, Oehlenschläger and Sibbern.
Not earlier than 25.7. - not later than 30.7.1840 A.C.T. Neubourg takes a daguerreotype of Thorvaldsen; the first portrait photograph in Scandinavia, N267.
Not later than 27.7.1840 From Nysø to Copenhagen.
27.7.1840 Attends a meeting at the Academy of Fine Arts.
28.7.1840 Receives a commision for a monument to Frederik 6. for Skanderborg Palace Mound.
30.7.1840 From Copenhagen to Roskilde in order to be attend the assembly of the Estates of the Realm for some days in the company of the Stampe family. From here probably to Nysø.
Presumably August 1840 In preparation for their planned journey to Italy in September 1840, Christine Stampe and Thorvaldsen burn many of his papers and letters.
Presumably August 1840 Supports a marine painter, probably Anton Melbye, who is represented in the collections with B263 and B264.
August 1840 Plans going to Italy in September, 1840.
6.8.1840 Copenhagen City Council stops the construction of Thorvaldsens Museum because of G.N. Sibbern’s claim that the design of the building was not solid enough.
Not earlier than 6.8.1840 Travels to Copenhagen prompted by the cessation of the building of the museum by the Copenhagen municipality.
Completed not later than 26.8.1840 Conrad Hinrich Donner, A242.
26.8.1840 Meeting with F.C. Olsen regarding a list of the works executed by Thorvaldsen since his return to Denmark 17.9.1838.
27.8.1840 From Copenhagen to Nysø in the company of Christine Stampe.
27.8.1840 Celebrates Holger Stampe-Charisius’ birthday at Nysø.
29.8.1840 Copenhagen City Council withdraws its protest dated 6.8.1840 against continuing the building of Thorvaldsens Museum. However, part of the construction had already been resumed a couple of days before.
September 1840 Sketches models for Andrew, Nysø32, and probably for Judas Thaddaeus, location unknown. Neither used for the statues A108 and A105.
9.9.1840 Postpones the planned journey to Italy until the spring of 1841 at the request of Christian 8., who in turn has been prompted by Christine Stampe.
14.9.1840 Accompanies Jens Arenholt Gottfred Hartmann and Wilhelm Matthiä to the Custom House, from where the steamboat to Lübeck leaves. The same evening in the Royal Theatre.
Beginning of October 1840 Head of Christine Stampe, Nysø105, preparatory work for Nysø38.
Beginning of October 1840 Head of Elisa Stampe, Nysø106, preparatory work for Nysø38.
Beginning of October 1840 Head of Henrik Stampe the Younger, Nysø109, preparatory work for Nysø39.
Beginning of October 1840 Head of Henrik Stampe the Elder, Nysø108, preparatory work for Nysø39.
Beginning of October 1840 Head of Holger Stampe, Nysø107, preparatory work for Nysø39.
Beginning of October 1840 Head of Jeanina Stampe, Nysø104, preparatory work for Nysø38.
3.10.1840 Christian 8. and Caroline Amalie pay a one-day visit to Præstø and Nysø in order to see Thorvaldsen and his statue of himself, Nysø1. A party for 60 persons at Nysø.
4.10.1840 Party given by the Moltke family at Bregentved, attended by Christian 8., Caroline Amalie, the Stampe family, and others.
Completed 5.10.1840 Thorvaldsen with the Stampe family, Nysø38.
Completed 10.10.1840 Henrik Stampe and two sons, Nysø39.
Middle of October 1840 Brief stay in Copenhagen, then return to Nysø.
15.10.1840 Thorvaldsen’s putative illegitimate daugther Nicoline Marie Berggren is born in Copenhagen.
November - December 1840 Head of Camel Driver, Nysø90, preparatory work for A553.
November - December 1840 Head of a Woman, Nysø88, preparatory work for A553.
November 1840 - 26.1.1841 Rebecca and Eliezer, A553.
Beginning of November 1840 Cupid on a Swan, A421.
Completed 12.11.1840 Jeanina Emilie Stampe as Psyche, A174.
Completed 17.11.1840 Hans Holsten, A213.
19.11.1840 Thorvaldsen’s birthday is celebrated at Nysø with songs, poems, a lottery, and a performance of Johan Herman Wessel’s play Love without Stockings. Besides Thorvaldsen and the residents of the house, A.C. Petersen, Nicolai Søtoft, August Beck, Johan Ferdinand de Neergaard and Just Mathias Thiele are also present.
23.11.1840 Travels from Nysø to Copenhagen accompanied by Just Mathias Thiele.
Not later than 26.11.1840 Arrives at Nysø from Copenhagen.
26.11.1840 Christian 8. sees the original plaster model of Christian 4., cf. A152.
Not earlier than 26.11.1840 Christian 4., A152, is cast in bronze and chased by Jørgen Dalhoff.
30.11.1840 Cupid on a Swan, A422.
Not earlier than 7.12.1840 Sees August Bournonville’s ballet The Toreador at the Royal Theatre again.
Not later than 8.12.1840 Travels from Nysø to Copenhagen.
9.12.1840 Is godfather to Ludvig Müller’s son, Peter Erasmus Müller (1840-1926), in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.
12.12.1840 Goethe-kommissionen trækker sig fra samarbejdet med Thorvaldsen om et monument for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
End of 1840 Refuses to pay the tax on rank and titles. Christian 8. complies with Thorvaldsen’s demand.
Presumably not later than 1841 Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, marble version with a panpipe at his left foot completed. Location unknown.
Presumably 1841 Achilles and Patroclus, A493.
1841 Andrew, A109, preparatory work for A108.
1841 Jude Thaddeus, A107, preparatory work for A105.
1841 A Woman’s Head, A814, relief fragment of Satyr Dancing with a Bacchante, A358.
1841 Buys Emilius Bærentzen’s Portrait of the actress Johanne Luise Heiberg, B205.
1841 - 1844 Cupid’s Head, A806.
1841 - 1844 Cupid’s Torso, A805.
1841 - 1844 Cupid’s Wing, A807_
1841 - 1844 Foot with Ankle, A809.
1841 - 1844 Psyche’s Head, A808.
Completed 3.2.1841 Leda and the Swan, A423.
Completed 10.2.1841 Christ and the Woman of Samaria, A568.
Not later than 18.2.1841 Cupid and the Sleeping Psyche, A428.
Not later than 18.2.1841 Psyche and the Sleeping Cupid, A429.
March 1841 The Genius of Light, A519.
3.3.1841 Member of the Academia de Bellas-Artes de Lisboa, Lisbon.
Not later than 5.3.1841 Head of Hans Madsen, Nysø103, preparatory work for A603.
Not later than 5.3.1841 Head of Johan Rantzau, Nysø102, preparatory work for A603.
Completed 5.3.1841 Hans Madsen and Johan Rantzau, A603.
Completed 8.3.1841 Jesus as a Child in the Temple, A567.
Middle of March 1841 Short stay in Copenhagen.
18.3.1841 Receives a visit from the painter C.W. Eckersberg and the clergyman and writer Carsten Friis Wiborg (1813-1885).
21.3.1841 Receives a visit from the painter C.W. Eckersberg, Lise and Jette Bagge, and the unidentified “Miss Baier”.
18.4.1841 Attends Elise Stampe’s confirmation at Susette and J.F. Schouw in Copenhagen.
20.4.1841 Harmony, drawing for Christine Stampe’s birthday, possibly C1160.
20.4.1841 Attends the celebration of Christine Stampe’s birthday in Copenhagen.
End of April 1841 Preparatory to the journey to Rome Christine Stampe and Thorvaldsen burn many of his papers and letters, “which it would be better to burn” – according to the sculptor.
Middle of May 1841 Short stay in Copenhagen.
18.5.1841 Farewell dinner with Christian 8. at Sorgenfri Castle before his journey to Rome.
19.5.1841 Travels from Copenhagen to Nysø accompanied by Susette Schouw.
19.5.1841 Om eftermiddagen på Nysø i selskab med bl.a. J.P. Mynster.
23.5.1841 Justice, Nysø31.
24.5.1841 Cupid and Psyche, Nysø47, also called “Goodbye to Nysø”.
25.5.1841 Departure from Nysø Msy 25, 1841, C1063.
25.5.1841 Begins his journey to Rome with Christine Stampe and her family. Rides in his own carriage with coachman Niels Rasmussen.
Farewell ceremony on Præstø harbour. With the royal steam boat Kiel to Warnemünde. On board the captain Peter Wulff, Henriette Wulff, C.W. Eckersberg, G.F. Ursin, Carl Dahl, and C.F. Wilckens.
25.5.1841 Honorary member of the society Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.
26.5.1841 Takes leave of C.W. Eckersberg, G.F. Ursin, Carl Dahl, Henrik Stampe junior and C.F. Wilckens in Warnemünde.
27.5.1841 Arrival at Neustrelitz.
27.5.1841 Visits the Court at Neustrelitz. Meets the author Christian Winther.
28.5.1841 Departure from Neustrelitz at 7 a.m.
29.5.1841 Arrival in Berlin.
29.5.1841 In the afternoon, visits the Tiergarten in Berlin in the company of H. Steffens. In the evening, in the opera to see Lucia de Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848).
30.5.1841 Meets with a deputation from the Kunstverein in Berlin and presents his latest works by the means of line engravings.
At 12 o’clock a concert with the pianist and composer Fanny Hensel.
30.5.1841 Visits Friedrich Wilhelm 4. at Schloss Schönhausen in the evening; also present are H. Steffens, C.D. Rauch and A.W. Schlegel. Dinner at the house of H. Steffens and then goes to the theater to watch Oberon written by Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826).
31.5.1841 Dinner at the home of the sculptor Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann. Friedrich Tieck is present.
Beginning of June 1841 Sees Consul Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wageners (1782-1861) collection of paintings in company with the art historian G.F. Waagen. Accidentally exchanges hats with Wagener, who keeps his hat as a treasure.
Beginning of June 1841 Visits the architect Wilhelm Stier.
Beginning of June 1841 Once again visits Fanny and Wilhelm Hensel. Thorvaldsen is portrayed by Wilhelm Hensel.
Beginning of June 1841 Visits artists’ studios and collections in Berlin. Visits Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Beginning of June 1841 Travels by train for the first time from Berlin to Potsdam with the Stampe family and Heinrich Steffens.
Beginning of June 1841 Dinner at the home of Mathilde von Waldenburg.
Beginning of June 1841 Meets the writer and artist Bettina von Arnim.
3.6.1841 Banquet with Berlin artists and scientist in the Jagorscher Saal in Unter den Linden. A portrait bust of Thorvaldsen is crowned with laurels by the statue of Victoria by Christian Daniel Rauch. Speeches and poems are performed. Present are Peter von Cornelius, August Wilhelm Schlegel and others.
4.6.1841 Meets Wilhelm Dorow in Berlin.
5.6.1841 Thorvaldsen is portrayed by four artist in one sitting – Eduard Magnus, Wilhelm Hensel, B437, Franz Krüger og Karl Joseph Begas in the latter’s studio in Berlin.
6.6.1841 At 6 in the morning, Thorvaldsen again poses for Franz Krüger’s portrait at the home of Karl Joseph Begas.
6.6.1841 Visits the castles at Potsdam – Sanssouci and Glienicke – with the Steffens family. Meets children of the Royal Family, and Princess Charlotte of Hessen Kassel (1789-1864). Continues towards Dresden.
6.6.1841 Leaves Berlin.
9.6.1841 Arrives in Dresden, stays at the Hôtel de France.
9.6.1841 Meets J.C. Dahl and sees Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the recently inaugurated court theatre in Dresden.
10.6.1841 Dinner with J.C. Dahl is interrupted in favour of a visit to Friedrich August 2. of Saxony at Schloss Pillnitz.
10.6. - 13.6.1841 Christine Stampe presents the sculptor Ernst Rietschel with a lock of Thorvaldsen’s hair.
10.6. - 13.6.1841 Visits several art collections in Dresden in the company of J.C. Dahl.
Presumably 11.6.1841 Dinner with the Saxon minister Bernhard von Lindenau (1779-1854) on Brühl’s Terrace in Dresden.
12.6.1841 Dinner at the house of the banker Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim (1781-1863) in the Villa Rosa, desined by the architect Gottfried Semper (1803-1879). Among those present is the banker’s son-in-law, August Grahl.
12.6.1841 In the evening, a gala performance in the Court Theatre in Dresden, hosted by Friedrich August 2. of Saxony, with an epilogue in Thorvaldsens’s honour. Subsequent banquet at the theatre.
13.6. - 21.6.1841 Spends a week with Friederike and major Serre at the Maxener Schloss in Maxen near Dresden together with J.C. Dahl and Raden Saleh.
14.6.1841 Meets Ernst von Brunnow in Dresden.
15.6.1841 Excursion from Maxen to the Königstein Fortress in Saxony. Meets the commandant of the fortress and minister for war, Johann Adolf von Zezschwitz (1779-1845). A cannonade is fired in Thorvaldsen’s honour.
From there to Pirna, where the night is spent.
16.6.1841 From Pirna to the romantic Bastei rock formation. From there return to Maxen.
17.6.1841 Cupid and Psyche, relief, original plaster, Skulpturensammlung, Dresden (cast Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek).
17.6.1841 Elected honorary member of the Kunstverein München.
17.6.1841 At Maxen Thorvaldsen is portrayed twice: First in a painting begun by Raden Saleh and finished by J.C. Dahl, B467; then in another portrait painted solely by Raden Saleh.
20.6.1841 Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein portrays Thorvaldsen at Maxen (pencil, 35×24 cm, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden).
21.6.1841 Leaves Maxen for Dresden early in the morning.
21.6.1841 Meets Franz Pettrich in Dresden.
21.6.1841 Travels by train from Dresden to Leipzig in the company of the Dahls and the Serres. Stays at the inn Stadt Hamburg. Is received by a cheering crowd and musicians.
Visits the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
22.6.1841 Visits the Schlettersche Galerie and Heinrich Brockhaus’ printing house.
Later in Wilhelm Gerhard’s garden by the river Elster, close to the place where Józef Poniatowski was drowned.
22.6.1841 Attends a “musical celebration” at 1 o’clock p.m., arranged by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, followed by dinner at the Hôtel de Saxe in Leipzig.
22.6.1841 Leaves Leipzig.
Presumably 23.6.1841 Stays overnight at Weimar.
25.6.1841 The Russian Grand Duke Konstantin (1827-1892), son of Nikolaj 1., visits the absent Thorvaldsen’s studio in Rome.
27.6.1841 Arrives in Frankfurt am Main. Portrayed by Johann Heinrich Schramm (1810-1865).
28.6.1841 Celebration with artists from Frankfurt, hosted by Charlotte Gontard, and arranged by Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz. A poem and a speech by Friedrich Hessemer are recited in Thorvaldsen’s honour.
29.6.1841 Travels from Frankfurt am Main to Mainz.
29.6.1841 Moves into lodgings in Mainz, arranged by Jakob Kraetzer, in a house on the bank of the Rhine.
In the evening, a torch procession and music in his honour.
30.6.1841 Visits the flower decorated Gutenberg Monument, cf. A114, accompanied by the president of Rheinhessen Ludwig Christian Christoph von Lichtenberg. A large crowd cheers and sings to Thorvaldsen.
Visits the cathedral in Mainz.
30.6.1841 Dinner in Mainz with President von Lichtenberg.
1.7.1841 Visits the antiquarian museum in Wiesbaden in the morning with Jakob Kraetzer. Returns to Mainz the same day.
1.7.1841 The city of Mainz gives a dinner in Thorvaldsen’s honour at the city hall. Receives the freedom of the city (diploma, N35). Gala performance at the Stadttheater. Cheered from the balcony of the theatre by a large crowd in Gutenbergplatz. Both the square and the Gutenberg-statue are lit by torches. Songs and poems are performed.
2.7.1841 Trip by steamship up the Rhine from Mainz to St. Goar near the Lorelei with Georg Christian Strecker (1800-1874), Ludwig Christian Christoph von Lichtenberg, Johann Heinrich Schramm and others.
Back the same day. In the evening a concert in Neue Anlage – today Stadtpark in Mainz.
3.7.1841 Travels from Mainz. Is briefly accompanied by Ludwig Christian Christoph von Lichtenberg.
3.7. - 5.7.1841 Brief stay at Mannheim. Is shown around by Jakob Götzenberger.
Continues to Karlsruhe via Schwetzingen.
Presumably 5.7. - 6.7.1841 Brief stay at Bad Wildbad with Christine Stampe’s friend.
6.7.1841 Arrival in Stuttgart. Lodges at König von England at Schillerplatz.
6.7.1841 Visits the Schiller-monument, cf. A770. Meets Georg von Reinbeck and other members of Verein für Schiller’s Denkmal. The statue and the square are lit by torches, and a choir sings in Thorvaldsen’s honour.
7.7.1841 A deputation from the Stuttgart town government welcomes Thorvaldsen and invites him to attend celebrations in the coming two days.
7.7.1841 Excursion from Stuttgart.
7.7. - 9.7.1841 Visits several sights in Stuttgart and the surrounding country, among them Joseph Anton Gegenbaur’s frescoes in Neues Schloss, Schloss Rosenstein, and the mausoleum to the royal family of Württemberg in Rotenberg with two statues of evangelists after Thorvaldsen’s sketch.
8.7.1841 The Court at Württemberg gives a party in Thorvaldsen’s honour in the pump room at Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart.
9.7.1841 The city council of Stuttgart gives a party in Thorvaldsen’s honour at the resort of Silberburg. He receives the freedom of the city, cf. N37. A song for the sculptor is sung.
He is escorted back to his hotel by a torchlight procession.
10.7.1841 Travels from Stuttgart.
11.7.1841 Brief stay at Ulm. In the cathedral, Thorvaldsen is recognized. A chorus comes and sings for him.
12.7.1841 Short stop in Augsburg. Visits a church and an art collection guided by Andreas Eigner (1801-1870).
13.7.1841 Arrives in Munich and immediately visits Maximilian 1., cf. A128, in the Wittelsbacherplatz.
13.7.1841 Receives many visitors, among others, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
Visits Ludwigskirche. Later Don Carlos at the opera.
14.7.1841 Visits the royal palace Munich Residenz.
Middle of July 1841 Visits the bronze caster Stiglmaier, Schwantaler, Heideck, and others. Also a visit to Leo von Klenze’s Glyptothek.
15.7.1841 Grand celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour in the society “Die Zwanglosen” in Munich, attended by F.W.J. Schelling, and artists and scientists. Many poems to Thorvaldsen is read.
16.7.1841 Dinner with Therese af Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
17.7.1841 Informed of his honorary membership of the Kunstverein München.
17.7.1841 Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael, N11.
19.7.1841 Celebrated by young artists from Munich at a party in Knorr’s beer cellar in Marsfeld. Poems and a play are performed.
20.7.1841 Om formiddagen audiens hos kronprins Maximilian (2.) i München.
21.7.1841 Farewell party with Danish artists residing in Munich, e.g. Wilhelm Marstrand and Frederik Ludvig Storch (1805-1883).
22.7.1841 Travels from Munich to Hohenschwangau, where Thorvaldsen calls on the Bavarian Royal Family.
Presumably 24.7. - 25.7.1841 Travels through Lindau to Friedrichshafen. From here crossing the Bodensee by boat.
Presumably 25.7.1841 Arrives in Konstanz by boat. Travels on right away.
26.7.1841 Passes through Schaffhausen and sees the Rhine Falls. Onwards to Zürich.
Presumably 27.7.1841 From Zürich to Goldau.
Presumably 28.7.1841 Up the Rigi, NysøC.
Presumably 28.7.1841 Climbing Mount Rigi, from (Arth-)Goldau, with an overnight stop on the mountain.
Presumably 29.7.1841 Down the Rigi, by boat to Lucerne. Visits Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119.
30.7.1841 Celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour in Lucerne, at the Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119 music is played, and torches are lit.
Presumably 1.8.1841 Leaves Luzern by steamboat on the Vierwaldstättersee. Arrives in Flüelen.
Presumably 1.8. - 2.8.1841 Crosses the St. Gotthard pass.
Presumably 3.8.1841 Arrives in Lugano. Crosses the Lake Lugano per boat. From here onwards to Como.
Presumably 4.8.1841 Arrives in Milan.
4.8.1841 A board is formally elected to attend to the business of the commission for a monument to Frederik 6. in a general meeting at Skanderborg.
Presumably 5.8. - 7.8.1841 During his stay in Milan, Thorvaldsen sees the Brera Art Museum and visits several artists, among others Giovanni Servi. Dines with Heinrich Mylius in Milan and at his country house at Sesto San Giovanni.
Presumably 7.8.1841 Departs from Milan.
9.8.1841 Arrives at Genoa.
Presumably 12.8. - 14.8.1841 Stays at Carrara for three days.
Presumably 13.8. - 14.8.1841 Visits the marble quarries in Carrara and Seravezza.
Presumably 15.8. - 31.8.1841 Stays at Leghorn at Christian Dalgas. Excursions to Montenero.
Autumn 1841 Jude Thaddeus, A106, preparatory work for A105.
Autumn 1841 The Days of the Week Dancing, C1046 and C1111 (sketch for C1046) and The Days of the Week Dancing, C1047.
Presumably 1.9.1841 Travels from Leghorn to Pisa.
2.9.1841 Arrival in Florence.
Not earlier than 2.9. - not later than 4.9.1841 Thorvaldsen visits the American sculptor Hiram Powers’ in his studio in Florence.
2.9. - 3.9.1841 Meets the merchant Alfred Hage (1803-1872) and his family in Florence. Invites for dinner.
2.9. - 4.9.1841 Visits engraver Luigi Bardi, who gives Thorvaldsen a print of Rafael’s Transfiguration, engraved by Raphael Morghen, E839.
2.9. - 4.9.1841 Dinner at the home of Pietro Benvenuti.
3.9.1841 Party hosted by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II (1797-1870).
4.9.1841 Leaves Florence.
Presumably 8.9. - 9.9.1841 Passes through Perugia and Asissi. Sees Johann Friedrich Overbeck’s fresco Frants’ Rosenunder, 1829, in Santa Maria degli Angeli near Assisi.
12.9.1841 Reaches La Storta, Rome, and is welcomed by Danish, German, Italian, and Russian artists, etc. Is also welcomed by a deputation at Ponte Molle, and presumably presented with the bajoccoorder of the Ponte Molle Society, N89.
12.9.1841 Lodged in an apartment in Via di Capo le Case 75 close to Casa Buti with the Stampe family.
Visits Elisa Paulsen.
Not earlier than 12.9.1841 Daily visits from the painters Albert Küchler, Constantin Hansen, Adam Müller and the writer H.P. Holst.
13.9.1841 Received in the Accademia di S. Luca.
13.9.1841 Thorvaldsen shows the Stampe family round Rome. Dinner at the home of Karl von Kolb.
Presumably 15.9.1841 Is received in his workshop by his assistants. A bust of Thorvaldsen, crowned with a laurel wreath, is presented, and an unidentified assistant recites a poem in the sculptor’s honour.
18.9.1841 Celebrates Christian 8.’s birthday at Karl von Kolb’s. Also Jeanina Stampe’s birthday is celebrated.
19.9.1841 Celebration of Thorvaldsen’ return to Rome in Teatro Fiano, attended by international artists there. Thorvaldsen is carried in a torchlight procession to his home in Via Sistina.
28.9.1841 Visits the Pantheon with the Stampe family. Climbs the dome.
29.9.1841 Vincenzo Camuccini presents Christine Stampe with Luigi Durantini’s drawn copy of Camuccini’s portrait of Thorvaldsen, NysøL.
29.9.1841 Attends the public art and craftsman examinations in Ospizio di San Michele. Meets here Vincenzo Camuccini and Alexandra von Dietrichstein.
End of September 1841 Visits the painter Carl Werner.
9.10.1841 H.W. Bissen and his family arrive in Rom.
9.10.1841 Excursion to Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Ariccia, Genzano and Nemi ith the Stampe family and others.
Not earlier than 10.10.1841 Thorvaldsen and Christine Stampe show Emilie Bissen, née Møller, (married to H.W. Bissen) round Rome.
31.10.1841 Godfather to Heinrich Eddelien’s son Viggo Thorvald Eddelien, in the German Protestant Chapel in Palazzo Caffarelli, Rome. Party in the evening for all Danes in Rome.
Presumably November 1841 Visits J.F. Overbeck and sees the cartoon of Beweinung Christi, St. Marien zu Lübeck.
November 1841 Thorvaldsen is ill.
November 1841 Thorvaldsen and Christine Stampe burn “quite a few” of the sculptor’s “old things” in his rooms in Rome – probably letters and drawings.
Middle of November 1841 Moves into his own apartment in Casa Buti from the rented rooms in which he has stayed since his arrival in Rome 12.9.1841.
19.11.1841 Celebrates his birthday with dinner at the home of Elisa and Fritz Paulsen. Later Danish artists perform H.P. Holst’s comedy The Fairy Felic’idea, written for the occasion, in the Roman apartment of the Stampe family.
18.12.1841 Topping-out ceremony at Thorvaldsen’s Museum.
23.12.1841 - 13.1.1842 Ludvig Müller goes to Rome with his mother and his sister to care for his sick brother, Adam Müller. He carries a letter from Christian 8. to Thorvaldsen.
24.12.1841 Christine Stampe holds a Christmas celebration for Thorvaldsen and a number of Danish artists, among them H.P. Holst, Küchler, Breinholm, Jerichau, Holbech, Petersen, Adam Müller, Constantin Hansen, Peter Raadsig, Jespersen, Bravo, Thøming and Henrik Stampe.
24.12.1841 H.P. Holst gives Thorvaldsen a modelling tool for Christmas.
24.12.1841 Portrayed by Henri Lehmann in Rome (pencil, 18,4×13,2 cm, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt).
24.12.1841 Gives Christine Stampe the drawing Mary with Jesus and John, NysøG, for Christmas.
Presumably 1842 Two Children, Nysø10, after A68.
1842 Day, A906.
1842 Head of an Angel, A908.
1842 Head of a child, Nysø101, preparatory work for A589.
1842 The Entry into Jerusalem, A574.
1842 Night, A905.
1842 Pietro Alberto Paulsen as a Hunter’s Boy, Nysø55, preparatory work for A175.
1842 Abolition of Villeinage, Nysø27, sketch for A604.
Not earlier than 1842 Omphale, Nysø56.
Beginning of 1842 The Fligth into Egypt, A571.
1842 - 1843 The Establishment of Provincial Consultative Chambers, A605.
1842 - 1844 Cupid and Hymen, A451.
Presumably January 1842 Sketches for four prophets for the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, Ezekiel, C1087, Daniel, C1089, Isaiah, C1090, and Jeremiah, C1092.
January 1842 Drawings of two Angels of the Last Judgement, C1015r and C1017, meant for the entrance to a cemetery.
Presumably January 1842 - March 1842 Andrew, A108.
January - March 1842 Illness in the Stampe family, especially Elise Stampe .
1.1.1842 Excursion to Fontana dell’Aqua Acetosa at Ponte Molle with the Stampe family and H.P. Holst.
Completed 1.1.1842 The Adoration of the Shepherds, A570.
7.1.1842 Giacomo Giustiniani asks Thorvaldsen to resume his sculpture teaching at the Accademia di S. Luca – the request is, however, declined.
8.1.1842 The Ponte Molle Society celebrates Thorvaldsen’s “second” arrival in Rome 12.9.1841 in a big party in Palazzo Fiano, Piazza di San Lorenzo, in Rome. He is placed on a throne, the artists pay tribute to him with lights and song, and he is presented with the bajocco order, N91, of the society.
19.1.1842 Celebrates Karl von Kolb’s birthday at a soirée in Rome.
22.2.1842 Probably attends an evening party hosted by the American consul George Washington Greene.
Spring 1842 Controversy with August Riedel about a version of the painting Sakuntala.
Spring 1842 Controversy about the packing of Thorvaldsen’s works and belongings with Johan Bravo, who is dismissed from the job.
Spring 1842 Meets the painter Penry Williams and John Gibson.
Spring 1842 Attends a party given by Ferdinand Hiller.
March 1842 - 10.4.1842 Jude Thaddeus, A105.
7.3.1842 Disagreement with Pietro Galli, who moves out of Thorvaldsen’s apartment in Casa Buti. Thorvaldsen and C.F. Holbech moves in. Galli stops working for Thorvaldsen.
8.3.1842 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated with dinner given by Karl von Kolb in Rome with the participation of the Stampe family.
11.3.1842 Celebrates Elise Stampe’s 18th birthday after her recovery from serious illness.
Completed 20.3.1842 The Annunciation, A569.
End of March 1842 Sees the Girandola / fireworks over Castel Sant’Angelo at the home of Alessandro Torlonia. Meets Alexandre Dumas père.
End of March 1842 Thorvaldsen and Christine Stampe burn “a lot of old things” in the sculptor’s Roman home – probably papers, drawings, etc.
April - May 1842 Besøg i Villa Wolkonsky hos Zinaida Volkonskaia.
April - May 1842 Henrik Stampe forlader Rom på egen hånd og efterlader sin hustru, Christine Stampe og sine tre børn. Sandsynligvis som følge af et ægteskabeligt opgør.
2.4.1842 Christian Dalgas arrives in Rome with his wife, Louisa Salvetti. Thorvaldsen accompanies them on excursions.
20.4.1842 Presents Christine Stampe with a bronze version of Christ, a Ganymedes in marble and a drawing for her birthday.
24.4.1842 Attends the celebration of Christian Dalgas’ birthday in Rome.
28.4.1842 Celebrates the coming of spring with the Ponte Molle Society at the Cervaro Caves, approximately 8 kilometres north east of Rome. Is awarded the Vielzuvielverdienstorden of the society, N92.
End of April 1842 Ludwig 1. arrives in Rome and stays at Villa Malta. Thorvaldsen receives him.
Presumably May 1842 Ludwig 1. admires the bust Christine Stampe (cf. A217).
May 1842 Jesus as a Child in the Temple, A572.
May 1842 Christine Stampe, A217.
May 1842 Often invited to dinner with Ludwig 1., who also pays frequent visits to his workshops.
May 1842 - 23.6.1842 The Graces with Cupid’s Arrow, and Cupid Playing a Lyre, A32, reworked version of A29.
Presumably 1.5.1842 At a charity tombola in the Villa Borghese with Christine Stampe. There he meets Ludwig 1.
5.5.1842 Excursion to Torre di Quinto with Franz Ludwig Catel and the Stampe family.
Summer 1842 Reminded of the commission for a model of an equestrian statue of Ludwig 1., which, however, is not executed.
June 1842 In Rome, Thorvaldsen receives five crates with plaster models of works executed in Denmark that are to be carved in marble.
2.6.1842 Excursion to Albano, Genzano and Nemi with, among others, the Stampe family and C.F. Holbech.
4.6.1842 Alessandro Torlonia holds a celebration in Villa Torlonia in Rome on the occasion of the erection of an obelisk in the park of the villa. Among those present, besides Thorvaldsen, are Ludwig 1., Gregor 16., Byron’s mistress Teresa Guiccioli (1801-1873) and the Stampe family.
6.6.1842 Christine Stampe, her children and servants leave Rome in their coach, bound for Denmark.
6.6.1842 Dinner with Karl von Kolb.
10.6.1842 Christine Stampe, her children and servants arrive at Leghorn on their journey from Rome to Copenhagen. They stay with Stampe’s brother, Christian Dalgas.
16.6.1842 Awarded the order Pour le Mérite by Friedrich Wilhelm 4.
19.6.1842 Christine Stampe, her children and servants leave Leghorn bound for Milan on their journey back to Denmark.
19.6.1842 Visit from the painter Ferdinand Flor and the cameo engraver Tommaso Saulini.
21.6.1842 Approves a block of marble for The Graces with Cupid’s Arrow, and Cupid Playing a Lyre, cf. A32.
22.6.1842 Dinner with Alessandro Torlonia, visits Karl von Kolb in the evening.
23.6.1842 Visit from Ludwig Ross.
24.6.1842 Visit from Constantin Hansen and Peter Raadsig.
24.6.1842 Dinner party at the home of J.M. von Wagner.
26.6.1842 Visit from the sculptor B.E. Fogelberg and the painter G.W. Palm (1810-1890).
26.6.1842 Excursion to Torre di Quinto with Johan Bravo and C.F. Holbech.
26.6.1842 Visits Vincenzo Camuccini in the evening.
28.6. - 29.6.1842 Excursions in Rome to see, among others things, the Girandola fireworks with Antonio Savorelli.
29.6. - 3.7.1842 Repairs damaged plaster models, sent from Copenhagen, among others Christ at Emmaus, cf. Nysø18, and Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope, cf. Nysø1.
1.7.1842 Dinner with Kolb.
4.7.1842 Evening party with tombola at Thorvaldsen’s place in Casa Buti.
7.7.1842 Sees Carlo Goldoni’s (1707-1793) comedy Il Ventaglio in the afternoon, and Romeo and Juliet in the evening.
8.7. - 12.7.1842 Completes the marble version of Monument to the two Poninski Children (cf. A616). Subsequently erected in the Palace Chapel in Czerwonogród. Now in L’viv Art Gallery, Ukraine.
9.7.1842 Receives Penry Williams’ painting A shepherd boy and a girl in the Roman Campagna, in the background Aqua Claudia, B101.
11.7.1842 Visits Vincenzo Camuccini.
11.7. - 22.7.1842 Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings in Casa Buti are packed for transport for Copenhagen.
12.7.1842 Evening party with tombola at Thorvaldsen’s place in Casa Buti.
12.7.1842 Honorary member of The Icelandic Literary Society in Reykjavik.
13.7.1842 Evening party at the house of the director of the French Academy, Jean-Victor Schnetz.
17.7.1842 Visit from Wilhelm Matthiä and Albert Küchler.
17.7.1842 Large dinner party with artists and diplomats on Monte Mario. Later at Castel Sant’Angelo with C.F. Holbech.
19.7.1842 Evening party with tombola at Thorvaldsen’s place in Casa Buti.
24.7.1842 Excursion to Frascati, Tusculum and San Silvestro with Johan Bravo, Johann Martin von Wagner, C.F. Holbech and Jens Arenholt Gottfred Hartmann.
31.7.1842 Party at the house of Antonio Savorelli.
31.7.1842 Thorvaldsen “poses the model” for the pupils at the Accademia di S. Luca.
7.8.1842 Evening party at the house of Count Antonio Savorelli.
9.8.1842 Begins The Baptism of Christ, A573.
23.8.1842 Thorvaldsen’s belongings are transported to the Ripa Grande harbour in Rome.
Not later than September 1842 Angel of the Last Judgement, A593.
Not later than September 1842 Angel of the Last Judgement, A594.
Not later than September 1842 Angel of the Last Judgement, A595.
September 1842 The crates with Thorvaldsen’s works and belongings are sent to Leghorn.
26.9.1842 The frigate Thetis arrives at Leghorn to transport Thorvaldsen, his works of art and his household effects to Copenhagen.
29.9.1842 All the crates with Thorvaldsen’s works and other goods are loaded onto the frigate Thetis at Leghorn.
Presumably 30.9.1842 Frederikke Wallick visits Thorvaldsen in Rome, and they agree to travel from Civitavecchia to Leghorn together.
End of September 1842 Thorvaldsen suffers from rheumatic pains in his right hip.
1.10.1842 Departs from Rom for the last time bound for Civitavecchia, accompanied by Karl von Kolb.
2.10.1842 The frigate Thetis departs from Leghorn bound for Copenhagen with Thorvaldsen’s works and belongings, but without Thorvaldsen himself.
2.10.1842 Leaves Civitavecchia at 3 p.m. on board the steamship Maria Christina bound for Leghorn. He is in the company of Frederikke Wallick as previously arranged.
3.10.1842 Reaches Leghorn one day after the frigate Thetis has left for Denmark. Continues with the steamship Maria Christina to Marseilles instead in the company of Frederikke Wallick.
4.10.1842 On her way from Leghorn to Marseille, the steamship calls at Genoa.
5.10.1842 Arrives in Marseille.
5.10.1842 Spends the afternoon and the evening with Frederikke Wallick at the home of her friend, one Madame de Salle in Marseille.
7.10.1842 Departure from Marseille by stagecoach to Lyon.
7.10.1842 The keystone in the vaulted ceiling of the hall in Thorvaldsen’s Museum is placed.
9.10.1842 Arrives at Lyon. Leaves the same day after a few hours’ sleep, bound for Strasbourg via Dijon.
Presumably 11.10.1842 Arrival Strasbourg by stagecoach.
12.10.1842 Travels by river steamer from Strasbourg to Mannheim on the Rhine.
12.10.1842 Supper and room at the Hotel de L’Europe, Mannheim.
13.10.1842 Departure very early in the morning from Mannheim to Mainz by steamship. From there on to Frankfurt am Main, probably also by boat.
13.10.1842 Takes rooms at the Gasthaus zum römischen Kayser, Frankfurt am Main. Meets several acquaintances, among them Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz, who gives a large party to Thorvaldsen in his home from 6 to 8.30 pm.
13.10.1842 Travels by stagecoach from Frankfurt am Main to Kassel at 9 p.m.
14.10.1842 Arrives at Kassel by stagecoach and takes rooms at the hotel zum König von Preussen.
15.10.1842 Departure from Kassel by stagecoach, arrival Hannover the next morning. The journey goes through Göttingen, where town officials invite Thorvaldsen to spend a day there, but in vain.
16.10.1842 In the evening, leaves Hannover by stagecoach to go to Altona via Celle, Harburg and Hamburg. From Celle in the company of Johanna and Salomon Ludwig Steinheim.
17.10. - 22.10.1842 Arrives in Altona, and stays at the hotel Zum Holsteinischen Hause.
18.10.1842 Celebrated in Altona by a singing society of about 40 people.
18.10.1842 Party at the home of Johanna and Salomon Ludwig Steinheim in Altona.
19.10.1842 Celebrated by the singing society Allgemeinen Altonaer Liedertafel with a song, a speech, and illuminations during his stay in Altona. About 200 people are present.
Presumably 20.10.1842 Large party at the house of Johanna and Salomon Ludwig Steinheim in Altona.
21.10.1842 A deputation of about 50 people appear at the hotel Zum Holsteinischen Hause in Altona to take leave of Thorvaldsen before his departure for Copenhagen.
22.10.1842 Travels by stagecoach from Altona / Hamburg to Kiel at 5 o’clock in the morning.
22.10.1842 Sails from Kiel on board the steamship Frederik den sjette. P.W. Forchhammer tries in vain to persuade Thorvaldsen to stay for a day in Kiel.
23.10.1842 The steamship Frederik den sjette anchors at Vordingborg due to bad weather.
23.10.1842 The daughters of G.F. Hetsch and C.W. Eckersberg decorate Thorvaldsen’s studio with wreaths on the occasion of his approaching return.
24.10.1842 Arrives in Copenhagen between 5 and 6 p.m. on board the steamship Frederik den sjette in the company of Frederikke Wallick. He is received by J.M. Thiele, Hermann Ernst Freund, H.N. Clausen, Christine Stampe and Elisa Paulsen, Fritz Paulsen, their children, J.F. Schouw. among others.
24.10.1842 Dinner party given by Susette and J.F. Schouw at Charlottenborg. Among those present are: the Stampe family H.N. Clausen, Birgitte Francisca Clausen (1797-1875) and N.L. Høyen.
25.10.1842 Thorvaldsen visits Thorvaldsen’s Museum for the first time. The museum is decorated with garlands and members of the students’ choral society sing H.P. Holst’s Mellem disse mure (Between these high walls).
25.10.1842 Dinner party given by Christian 8. at Sorgenfri with, among others, Just Mathias Thiele.
26.10.1842 Dinner party at the home of Elisa and Fritz Paulsen.
27.10.1842 Dinner party at the home of Susette and J.F. Schouw.
28.10.1842 Visits the painter C.W. Eckersberg.
End of October 1842 Donates 25,000 rix-dollars to the museum for the carving of marble versions, pedestals, etc.
1.11.1842 The frigate Thetis arrives in Copenhagen from Leghorn with parts of Thorvaldsen’s art works, his collection and other belongings.
9.11.1842 Receives the visit of the painter C.W. Eckersberg.
17.11.1842 Arrives at Nysø for the first time after his return from Italy.
19.11.1842 Celebrates his birthday at Nysø with, among other things, a song by Henrik Stampe.
Completed 25.11.1842 Three Genii, A153, after the device of Christian 4., executed at the suggestion of G.F. Hetsch.
26.11.1842 Arrives at Charlottenborg from Nysø Saturday evening.
27.11.1842 Becomes godfather to C.C. Zahrtman’s daughter, Wanda Sophie Elisabeth Candia Zahrtmann (1842-1916), at 38 Bredgade, Copenhagen.
End of November 1842 Suffers from pain in his legs after the home journey.
Not later than 2.12.1842 Buys Adam Müller’s still unfinished painting Christ and The Evangelists, B276.
3.12.1842 Receives the visit of the painter C.W. Eckersberg. Suffers from a bad leg.
Completed 12.12.1842 The Abolition of Villeinage, A604.
24.12.1842 Oehlenschläger celebrates Christmas with Thorvaldsen and the family Stampe at Nysø.
Completed 24.12.1842 Christmas Joy in Heaven, A589.
27.12.1842 The ship, Die gute Hoffnung, is stranded, carrying works by Thorvaldsen, which are all rescued.
Presumably 1843 Christmas Joy in Heaven, A855.
Presumably 1843 Minerva, A783, fragment of A17.
1843 Cupid and Erato, NysøH,1
1843 Hercules, A15, preparatory work for A14.
1843 Hymen, A457.
1843 Minerva, A17.
1843 Nemesis, A19.
1843 Aesculapius, A20.
Presumably January 1843 Jørgen Dalhoff succeeds in firing terracotta for the first time in Copenhagen.
January 1843 Returns to Copenhagen after a stay at Nysø.
1.1.1843 Pietro Alberto Paulsen as a Hunter’s Boy, A175. The work was commissioned by Christian 8. as a marble statue, but it was never executed.
Completed 9.1.1843 Personifications of Justice and Strength, A609, prepatory work for A606.
Completed 15.1.1843 Genii enwreathe the Arts and Sciences, A610, prepatory work for A607.
25.1.1843 Thorvaldsen revises his testament.
Presumably February 1843 Delegates the execution of a terracotta pediment for Christiansborg Palace after Jupiter, Minerva and Nemesis, A316, to Goffhelf Borup.
February 1843 Resumed negotiations with Slotsbygningskommissionen (Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace) regarding the decoration of Christiansborg Palace.
9.2.1843 Visits the painter C.W. Eckersberg in the company of Christine Stampe and the painter Hermania Neergaard (1799-1875).
20.2.1843 Attends the meeting of Akademiforsamlingen (the Fellows of the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen).
Presumably March 1843 Visits his mausoleum in the museum.
Beginning of March 1843 Disagreement between Christine Stampe and Elisa Paulsen about the celebration of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday.
4.3.1843 Probably dines with H.C. Ørsted and his family.
6.3.1843 Justice, A606.
Completed 6.3.1843 Protection of the Arts and Sciences, A607.
8.3.1843 Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by Elisa Paulsen, who also celebrates her own birthday. Among those present are: Fritz Paulsen’s brother Friederich Nicolai Wilhelm Paulsen and sister-in-law, J.L. Jensen and his wife.
16.3.1843 The College of Arms reminds Thorvaldsen of the request for a draft of his coat of arms.
April 1843 Students at the University of Copenhagen remind Thorvaldsen of the commission for Martin Luther, cf. A188, and Philipp Melanchton, cf. A161.
18.4.1843 Congratulates the painter C.W. Eckersberg on his 25th anniversary as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Has arranged a dinner in Eckersberg’s honour, attended by Jonas Collin, Just Mathias Thiele, J.L. Lund, and others .
20.4.1843 Thorvaldsen gives Christine Stampe a bracelet made of gold and his own hair on her 46th birthday.
6.5.1843 Genius, A785.
13.5.1843 Visits Just Mathias Thiele in the company of the painters C.W. Eckersberg, Wilhelm Marstrand, Ernst Meyer, the art historian N.L. Høyen, and the architect Gottlieb Bindesbøll.
17.5.1843 Christian 8. sees Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings at Charlottenborg.
23.5.1843 Probably in the Royal Theatre with Christine Stampe.
7.6.1843 Thorvaldsen’s son-in-law Fritz Paulsen dies after a long period of illness.
Presumably 21.6.1843 Moves from Copenhagen to Nysø for the summer.
Presumably July 1843 Visit at Nysø from Ernst Meyer and Wilhelm Marstrand.
Presumably July 1843 Excursion lasting a couple of days from Nysø to Møn with the Stampe family, Ernst Mayer, Wilhelm Marstrand and probably Susette Schouw. Visits to Møns Klint and Stege.
July 1843 The Genius of Sculpture, A522.
July 1843 Head of the Muse of Comedy, Nysø77, preparatory work for A342.
July 1843 Head of the Muse of Tragedy, Nysø76, preparatory work for A342.
July 1843 The Mask of Comedy, Nysø78.
July 1843 The Muses of Tragedy and Comedy, A342.
July or August 1843 The Genii of Painting, Architecture and Sculpture, A525.
Completed 1.7.1843 Cupid’s Swan Song, A456.
3.7.1843 Is appointed member of the Kurfürstlichen Akademie der bildenden Künste, Kassel.
19.7.1843 Horace Vernet calls in vain on Thorvaldsen in his home at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.
Completed 21.7.1843 The Genius of Painting, A520.
Completed 30.7.1843 The Genii of Poetry and Harmony, A528.
August 1843 Returns to Copenhagen.
August - November 1843 Hercules, A14.
Presumably autumn 1843 The Ages of Love, A739.
Autumn 1843 Christian 8. visits Thorvaldsen’s studio.
14.9.1843 Receives a vist from the painter C.W. Eckersberg.
7.11.1843 Er sandsynligvis til stede ved et mindre selskab hos Johanne Luise og J.L. Heiberg i København.
Middle of November 1843 Stays for a couple of weeks at Nysø.
19.11.1843 Celebrates his birthday at Nysø. H.C. Andersen reads fairy tales, and a play by J.L. Heiberg is performed. Present are the Stampe family and Nicolai Søtoft, Julie and Carl Vilhelm Raben-Levetzau, Juliane and Benjamin Wolff, Charlotte and Johan Ferdinand de Neergaard. Songs by Andersen, Søtoft and Henrik Stampe.
End of November 1843 Several dinner parties given at manor houses close to Nysø, i.e. by Julie and Carl Vilhelm Raben-Levetzau, Juliane and Benjamin Wolff, Charlotte and Johan Ferdinand de Neergaard.
End of November 1843 From Nysø to Copenhagen via Vallø Castle.
Presumably December 1843 Hymen, A731.
Presumably December 1843 An arm on the clay model for Aesculapius, cf. sketch model A20, falls of. The same model crashed entirely after the death of Thorvaldsen 26.6.1844.
Presumably December 1843 Dinner at the house of Consul Alfred Hage, where the writer Constant Dirckinck-Holmfeld (1799-1880) criticizes Thorvaldsen’s Museum. Also present are Christine Stampe, Orla Lehmann and Anton Frederik Tscherning (1795-1874).
December 1843 Frequent soirées with ”the Italian singers”.
Completed 3.12.1843 The Genius of Architecture, A521.
13.12.1843 Appointed free member of the Institute of Fine Arts in London.
Middle of December 1843 During a visit to Christian 8. and Caroline Amalie, Thorvaldsen is referred to Doctor Johan Peter Jacobsen because of a legsore.
Middle of December 1843 - beginning of January 1844 Thorvaldsen is confined to his bed because of a leg sore. He is attended by the doctors Jacobsen and Bang, who disagree on the treatment.
17.12.1843 Receives a visit at Charlottenborg from the painter C.W. Eckersberg, whom he – in spite of a bad leg – subsequently calls on, also at Charlottenborg, in the company of Christine Stampe.
Not later than 22.12.1843 Given a painting by C.W. Heideck, Scene from the defence of a Spanish town during a guerrilla war, B118.
24.12.1843 Given three watercolours by Ernst Meyer, probably D848, D849, D850.
24.12.1843 Christmas at Charlottenborg. Christmas Stampe presents Thorvaldsen with Heinrich Buntzen’s Nysø Manor with Thorvaldsen in front of his Studio, B203. H.N. Clausen and his wife Birgitte Francisca are present.
31.12.1843 On New Year’s Eve, Thorvaldsen, who is confined to his bed, is visited by Christine and Henrik Stampe, N.F.S. Grundtvig and his wife Elisabeth Christina Margrethe Blicher (1787-1851), N.L. Høyen and his wife Edele Birgitte Westengaard (1799-1883).