Comment on 22.10.1808
Through her brother, Baron Herman Schubart, Charlotte Schimmelmann had commissioned a baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, as a present to their sister Sybille Reventlow of Brahetrolleborg in Funen, cf. letter of 2.11.1804 from Schubart to Thorvaldsen. See the related article about this Baptismal Font and other marble versions of it.
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