Efter 1817
Sender NN
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
3.3.1818
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen is working hard on another group and a single figure. Caroline von Humboldt has commi...
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen has shown Humboldt, Brandenburg, and Roeder a wealth of beautiful figures in his five...
Antagelig tidligst maj 1818
Workshop accounts concerning work on the clay bozzetto for The Graces, cf. A30, the clay model fo...
9.5.1818
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
13.6.1818
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
Efter 11.10.1818
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
6.11.1818
Wilhelm Schadow is working on several paintings, among them The Road to Calvary, B156. Thorvaldse...
9.1.1819
Rauch’s friends in Rome are deeply worried about his health and ask for news. Thorvaldsen has com...
20.1.1819
Sender Frederik Schmidt
The commentary to this poem is not available at the moment.
5.2.1819
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted writes that he sees Thorvaldsen every day. He praises Thorvaldsen’s latest works, Cupid...
6.3.1819
Brøndsted praises Thorvaldsen’s latest sculptures, Dancing Girl, A179, Cupid and the Graces, A29 ...
31.3.1819
Sender Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Recipient Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen and saw him modelling Cupid and the Graces, cf. A29. Thorvaldsen ha...
10.4.1819
Sender Rud Bay
Recipient Gottlieb Schønheyder
13.4.1819
Scavenius visited the Galleria Borghese and Thorvaldsen’s workshop, which is overrun by with visi...
16.4.1819
Scavenius saw an exhibition of works by Scandinavian artists in the Palazzo Caffarelli in Rome, w...
23.4.1819
Sender Friedrich Schlegel
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
24.4.1819
Sender Heinrich Keller
Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that Thorvaldsen is very busy and is about to leave for Denmark.
28.4.1819
Scavenius visited Canova’s workshop. He criticises a number of his works and compares him unfavou...
1.5.1819
Rud Bay describes his first encounter with Thorvaldsen. He mentions a wild and drunken party on t...
15.5.1819
Caroline von Humboldt has not demanded an answer from Thorvaldsen concerning Rauch’s possible rol...
28.5.1819
Recipient Andreas Christian Gierlew
Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...
23.7.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
24.7.1819
Rauch can get the latest news about Thorvaldsen from Karl Wilhelm Wach. Frances Mackenzie has bro...
16.10.1819
Schmidt’s song to Thorvaldsen at the celebration at the Royal Shooting Society in Copenhagen.
19.11.1819
Sender John Gibson
Recipient John Crouchley
3.12.1819
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
19.8.1820
29.1.1821
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
12.8.1821
Sender Christian 8.
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
1824
Sender Friederike Brun
Thorvaldsen has shown loving magnanimity towards Ida Brun by always having time for her. He playe...
29.1.1825
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
13.10.1826
Sender Gottlieb Götze
22.3.1827
Sender Conrad Rantzau
Rantzau writes from Nice, where he is staying in his capacity of travelling companion to Prince F...
8.5.1827
30.12.1827
Sender Democrito Gandolfi
Recipient Rodolfo Vantini
Gandolfi describes an accident regarding a marble version of the sculpture Cupid with the Lyre, e...
20.5.1829
Sender Christian Horneman
Hornemann recommends the composer Frølich, who intends to spend a year in Italy. He does not like...
1831
Sender Rembrandt Peale
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
21.2.1833
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
22.8.1834
Sender Bernhard von Beskow
4.1.1835
Sender Redaktørerne ved Søndagsblad
22.4.1836
1837 eller 1839
List of reliefs by Thorvaldsen, probably corresponding to the ones purchased by Wilhelm 1.
16.12.1837
Sender Friedrich Stammann
Friedrich Stammann recommends the Austrian Count Harrach to Thorvaldsen and asks Thorvaldsen to i...
16.8.1838
Sender Friedrich Anton König
September 1838–juni 1839
Sender Christine Stampe
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 1st part of 60 in all.
Juni-juli 1839
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 3rd part of 60 in all.
Juli 1839
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 59th part of 60 in all.
1840-41
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 18th part of 60 in all.
April-maj 1841
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 19th part of 60 in all.
Ca. maj-juni 1842
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 41th part of 60 in all.
1844
Sender NN, Adam Oehlenschläger, H.C. Ørsted
19.6.1845
Plays host to Friedrich Wilhelm IV, who, among other things, is shown several of Thorvaldsen’s wo...