Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nysø
Rødt papirdækket segl.
C.F. Wilckens
København
Udskrift: Til Hr Wilckens / hos ConferensRaad Thorvaldsen / paa / CharlottenburgI
Dateringen fremgår af brevet.
The plasterer is to cast a piece of a frieze, probably The Entry into Jerusalem, Nysø20.
Nysøe d. 26 novb: 1840
GibserenII skal forme et Stykke af FrisenIII, og ikke mere føren jeg kommer til Kjøbenhavn, som vel blive i neste MaanetIV
Thorvaldsen
Nysoe, November 26th 1840
The plasterer must form a piece of the frieze and no more until I arrive in Copenhagen, which I think will be next month
Thorvaldsen
[Translated by Karen Husum]
The letter is not among the letters discovered by Thiele (see History of the Archives). It is uncertain from where and when the museum acquired the letter, probably in the early 20th century.
Last updated 22.02.2017
Cf. the article Thorvaldsen’s Residence, Studio and Museum in the Academy of Fine Arts.
This could be Johanne Juliane Antonetti, who ran the plaster-casting works Antonetti’s Widow in Copenhagen.
This may be the frieze The Entry into Jerusalem, plaster cast, Nysø20, for which the plasterer Johanne Juliane Antonetti sent a bill to Christine Stampe on 10.3.1843.
Thorvaldsen went to Copenhagen on 8.12.1840 at the latest as he attended a christening in the Church of Our Lady on 9.12.1840.