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.

Primary sources

• Letter dated 28.4.1842 from Ferdinand Flor.
• Friedrich Noack: Deutsches Leben in Rom, Stuttgart & Berlin 1907, p. 260, 383.
• Rigmor Stampe (ed.): Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen 1912, p. 186-188 (Stampe dates the event 29.4.1842).

Other references

• Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters, Berlin and Leipzig 1927, Vol.I, p. 521.
• Ursula Peters (ed. inter al.): Künstlerleben in Rom, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Der dänische Bildhauer und seine deutschen Freunde, Nürnberg 1991, p. 489-490.
• Related Article: Ponte Molle Society, The
• Related Article: Thorvaldsen’s Honorary Titles

Last updated 26.08.2019