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.

Primary sources

• Letter dated 8.6.1830 from Peder Horrebow Haste to Just Mathias Thiele.

Other references

• Kirsten Bendixen: Thorvaldsen og medaljekunsten, Copenhagen 1980, p. 19-21.

Last updated 15.03.2016