Comment on 20.8.1808
I.e. Thorvaldsen’s statue Adonis, cf. A53.
The reason for Thorvaldsen’s “uncertainty” seems to have been that he had hopes of receiving a commission for a marble statue, but it was still unclear whether it was going to be Adonis or Mars Bringing Peace, as mentioned below.
The result was that Adonis was commissioned in marble by Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria through his agent in Rome at the time, the above-mentioned Bavarian minister Johann Casimir Häffelin.
This was Ludwig I’s first commission from Thorvaldsen, see Ludwig I of Bavaria’s Commissions.
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