No. 9384 of 10318
Sender Date Recipient
Bertel Thorvaldsen [+]

Sender’s Location

København

23.5.1843 [+]

Dating based on

Dateringen fremgår af dokumentet.

Clara Beaumarié [+]

Recipient’s Location

København

Abstract

Thorvaldsen’s greeting in Clara Beaumarié’s album.

Albert Thorvaldsen,

Copenhagen d. 23 Mai 1843

General Comment

This greeting is written in Clara Beaumarié’s album under a drawing of a winged youth playing a lyre:

Harmoniens genius? Clara Beaumariés stambog, HHI.AUT.2007.5025.96.TG.

Thorvaldsen seems to have taken an interest in this figure around 1843. It is similar to another Thorvaldsen drawing from the 1840s, C1160, a hovering lyre-playing Cupid, who, however, is not shown as a youth but as a small boy. There is a striking likeness to the relief Cupid’s Swan Song, cf. A456, from the same year as the greeting in the album. However, since the figure in Beaumarié’s album does not have Cupid’s quiver, it may be interpreted more broadly as the genius of Harmony as e.g. in the relief The Genii of Poetry and Harmony, cf. A528, also from 1843.

Archival Reference
Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Düsseldorf, HHI.AUT.2007.5025.96.TG.
Document Type
Document, autograph
Thiele
Ikke omtalt hos Thiele.
Other references

  • Francis Maillard: Deaux Orléanais au XIXe siècle, Paris 2015.
  • Francis Maillard: “Madame C. Beaumarié: das Album, das Reisetagebuch und der Zufall”, Heine-Jahruch 51 (2012), pp. 86-98.
Subjects
Alba Amicorum, Albums and Friendship Books · Drawings, Allegories
Works
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