20.6.1816
Sender Jørgen Knudtzon
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
7.3.1817
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
In his capacity as member of a committee, Mokronowski writes to Thorvaldsen to ask him if he is w...
15.5.1817
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen accepts the commission for an equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, and a...
1.7.1817
Mokronowski thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commission for the equestrian statue of Józef Po...
10.9.1817
Thorvaldsen notes that his conditions for executing the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski ha...
21.10.1817
Sender Redaktørerne ved Leipziger Zeitung
Recipient Omnes
This newspaper cutting reports that the Russian Zar and King of Poland Alexander 1. on 6.9.1817 h...
15.12.1817
Thorvaldsen adds three conditions for accepting the execution of the equestrian statue of Józef P...
17.12.1817
Thorvaldsen writes that the wording of Mokronowski’s last letter might give the impression that h...
12.2.1818
Mokronowski informs Thorvaldsen that permission has been granted by the Emperor Alexander I to er...
29.4.1818
Mokronowski answers two letters from Thorvaldsen of March 1818. He also sends a specification of ...
13.6.1818
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
8.7.1818
Sender Leon Potocki
Preliminary contract regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123. Thorvaldsen ...
10.7.1818
Thorvaldsen’s last letter has been received with pleasure. The committee is now convinced of his ...
1.8.1818
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen is grateful for the commission for the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christi...
22.8.1818
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...
24.10.1818
Mokronowski writes that since his last letter to Thorvaldsen he has collected all the pictures of...
25.10.1818
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Sommariva has arrived in Italy. He has read in the French press that Frederik 6. has commissioned...
4.12.1818
Sender Atanazy Raczyński
Raczyński thanks Thorvaldsen for the drawing of Ganymede and hopes to receive the statue soon, cf...
22.12.1818
Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...
26.12.1818
Sender Franciszek Skibicki
Skibicki tells Thorvaldsen the Countess Felix Potocka, who is on the point of leaving for Italy, ...
9.1.1819
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch’s friends in Rome are deeply worried about his health and ask for news. Thorvaldsen has com...
Thorvaldsen has postponed answering Mokronowski’s letter because he has been waiting to get vario...
1.4.1819
Sommariva writes that unfortunately he has had to give up his plans to go to Rome. He is proud of...
3.4.1819
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch has received requests from Poland to supervise the bronze casting and the shipment of Thorv...
8.4.1819
Sender Narcyz Makowiecki
Recipient Pierre Jullien
Makowiecki asks the banker Jullien to pay Thorvaldsen 50 ecus after the bust of Józef Poniatowski...
15.4.1819
In this accompanying letter, Mokronowski writes that Count Kossakowski’s journey to Rome h...
15.5.1819
Caroline von Humboldt has not demanded an answer from Thorvaldsen concerning Rauch’s possible rol...
17.6.1819
Sender Clemens Metternich
Recipient Eleonore von Kaunitz
Thorvaldsen has modelled Metternich’s bust, cf. A234. The artist will pass through Vienna before ...
19.6.1819
Rauch thanks Caroline von Humboldt for having acted wisely in connection with Rauch’s possible in...
28.7.1819
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted tells Aagaard that Thorvaldsen has left Rome, which is good because there were so many ...
23.10.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
18.9.1820
Rauch hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Warsaw. He encloses a small metal relief as a ...
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Notice mentioning, among other things, Thorvaldsen’s expected arrival in Warsaw.
5.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
7.10.1820
A newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Warszaw.
19.10.1820
A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...
20.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Oesterreichischer Beobachter
An Austrian newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Warszaw.
17.12.1820
17.-23.12.1820
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient Christian 8.
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
3.2.1821
Mokronowski has not had news from Thorvaldsen for a long time though he has heard from Stanisław ...
25.3.1821
Sender Frederik Julian Christian von Bertouch
Bertouch sends warm regards and some news to Thorvaldsen. Among other things, he mentions Clemens...
7.5.1821
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
2.6.1821
Mokronowski refers to his letter of February 3rd with an enclosure concerning the funerary monume...
7.9.1821
Mokronowski introduces Bernard Potocki, a nephew of Włodzimierz Potocki, who is coming to Rome. H...
15.9.1821
Sender Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Carbonneaux has been asked by the Polish committee if he will cast the monument to Józef Poniatow...
31.10.1821
Sender Adam Czartoryski
Czartoryski informs Thorvaldsen that Mokronowski died on October 19th, the very day of Józef Poni...
14.12.1821
Recipient Stanisław Grabowski
Thorvaldsen expresses his grief at the death of Stanisław Mokronowski. He regrets that several pr...
6.1.1822
Recipient Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Thorvaldsen is pleased that Carbonneaux has been chosen to cast the equestrian statue of Józef Po...
7.1.1822
Sender Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Recipient Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
The Earl of Minto describes a visit to Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops and compa...
12.1.1822
Sender F. Louis Coué
Coué has received a letter from a Parisian bronze caster who is in contact with Thorvaldsen conce...
6.2.1822
Sender Stanisław Grabowski
Grabowski is honoured to be in contact with one of the finest artists in the universe. He asks Th...
13.2.1822
Recipient Christian Carl Friedrich August
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
20.3.1822
Sender François Léquine
Léquine has heard that the model for Józef Poniatowski, A123, will soon be finished and reminds T...
Omkring 11.5.1822
Thorvaldsen writes a report on his current Polish commissions. The funerary monument to Potocki h...
24.5.1822
Recipient Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
30.5.1822
Recipient Sulpiz Boisserée
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer. He acknowledges receipt of the first four deliveries ...
6.9.1822
Coué mentions an earlier letter sent through J.G. Schadow and Rudolf Schadow. He supposes that th...
2.11.1822
Sender NN
24.1.1823
20.11.1823
The bronze caster complains that he has not heard more about the casting of the equestrian statue...
16.12.1823
Sender Jørgen Conrad de Falsen
Falsen reminds Thorvaldsen that he has commissioned a monument to his late wife. However, the mem...
1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele describes Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Rome.
27.3.1824
Potocki urgently requests a definite date of delivery of the moulds for the equestrian statue of ...
5.1.1825
Sender Tekla Potocka
Tekla Potocka has written to Thorvaldsen from Poland but has not heard from him. She asks if he h...
1826-1827 (1876)
Sender N.C.L. Abrahams
Abrahams’ recollections of his stay in Rome 1826-27.
21.2.1826
Sender Stanisław Grabowski, Józef Sierakowski, Walenty Sobolewski
The committee expresses great concern regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A...
22.2.1826
Sender Edward Czarnecki
Czarnecki reminds Thorvaldsen that he signed a contract 30.9.1820 for a statue of Copernicus, cf....
11.4.1826
Thorvaldsen deeply regrets that he has not been able to fulfill the terms of his contract for the...
Maj 1826
Sender Karl August Böttiger
Juni 1825 - September 1827
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
25.11.1826
Sender Johan Gunder Adler
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
The Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen wants more casts of Thorvaldsen’s works.
1827
Sender Redaktørerne ved Literatur og Kunst Historie Archiv for Psychologie
Two quotations about Thorvaldsen from German newspapers: from Berlinische Zeitung and a poem by J...
Marts 1827
9.6.1827
1.10.1827
Sender Anna Potocka
Potocka wants to know what Thorvaldsen is working on at the moment, and what progress is being ma...
6.11.1827
Thorvaldsen’s receipt for 4,600 Roman scudi for the plaster model of Józef Poniatowski_, A123. As...
20.2.1828
Anna Potocka mentions that she wrote to Thorvaldsen from Vienna five months ago but received no a...
Juni 1828
Recipient Jakub Tatarkiewicz
Thorvaldsen attests to the efficiency, skill, and diligence of his assistant Jakúb Tatarkiewicz, ...
29.12.1828
Grabowski reports that the plaster model of Józef Poniatowski, A123, has reached Danzig (Gdańsk) ...
1.4.1829
Sender Jakub Tatarkiewicz
Tatarkiewicz writes that there have been problems with the casting of Nicolaus Copernicus after t...
24.5.1829
Sender Maria Szymanowska
Szymanowska sends the letter with the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, who she thinks will greatly ap...
17.7.1829
The bronze caster writes that an accident nearly cost him his life, and that it has taken him fiv...
16.3.1830
17.3.1830
25.8.1830
Szymanowska sends the letter with Princess Sofia Volkonskaia. She tells Thorvaldsen that she is a...
16.6 og 19.6.1832
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
21.6.1832
15.6.1833
Sender C.F. Hansen
Hansen is pleased the Thorvaldsen is satisfied with his appointment as director of the Academy of...
Før 8.8.1833
Recipient NN
List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
27.9.1833
A list of the artworks by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.
1.10.1833
A list of the works by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.
8.10.1833
Sender C.W. Eckersberg, København Kunstakademiet, Just Mathias Thiele
The corvette Galathea arrived in Copenhagen 20.9.1833. The crates with Thorvaldsen’s works have b...
21.12.1833
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of the report on the arrival of his works of art in Copenhagen w...
4.1.1835
Sender Redaktørerne ved Søndagsblad
5.2.1835
15.8.1835
Recipient Franciszek Paszkowski
Thorvaldsen’s receipt for 4,000 piastres deposited in his account. However, he has not touched th...