Plaster Casts, Thorvaldsen's Works
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Omnes
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen advertises the sale of his son’s bust of A.P. Bernstorff, A856.
Waldemar Henrik Rothe
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The theologian Waldemar Henrik Rothe thanks Thorvaldsen for his friendship during his stay in Rom...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for his appointment as professor of sculpture at the Academy ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero. He is pleased that the busts of Herman Schubart,...
Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A list of the objects that Friederike Brun leaves in storage with Thorvaldsen.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Peder Malling
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
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Peder Malling
Christian 8.
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Hans Carl Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reminisces about his journey to Rome and hopes to see Thorvaldsen the following year dur...
Maria Craufurd
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is asked to make twelve plaster copies of Jane Craufurd’s bust, cf. A307, and send th...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
For a long time, the Academy of Fine Arts has wished to possess plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
Jørgen Koch
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has spent a month in Naples but still does not look happy and well. The clay model of...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt has not demanded an answer from Thorvaldsen concerning Rauch’s possible rol...
P.O. Brøndsted
Andreas Christian Gierlew
Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri reminds Thorvaldsen that Nicolaus Esterházy’s commission has to be sent off. Esterházy’s...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch can get the latest news about Thorvaldsen from Karl Wilhelm Wach. Frances Mackenzie has bro...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
Christian 8.
C.F. Hansen
Christian Frederik has considered to interrupt his grand tour of Europe temporarily in order to g...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An account of the meeting in Copenhagen on 24.11.1819, in which Thorvaldsen promised the Building...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6.
Thorvaldsen suggests a drastic restructuring and relocation of the Royal Collection of Paintings,...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen’s proposal for the assignments that Hermann Ernst Freund may be given by the Building...
Wilhelm Heigelin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Francesco Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mr. and Mrs. Tantini ask Thorvaldsen to make a plaster cast of the bust of their mutual friend, C...
Cecilia Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Cecilia Tantini writes to convey Conrad Rantzau’s request to send his portrait bust, cf. A211, to...
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted complains about having been assigned the “less than amusing” task for Christian (8.) Fr...
Friedrich Bluhme
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friedrich Bluhme has tried in vain to see Thorvaldsen personally and therefore writes on Tantini’...
Accademia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Cesare Massari
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Massari acknowledges the receipt of a plaster cast of Shepherd Boy by Thorvaldsen.
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Giuseppe Basseggio
Bertrand-Favre asks the art dealer Basseggio to send a cast of Thorvaldsen’s bas-relief The...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which Christian (8.) Frederik wants to be sent to D...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
The Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen wants more casts of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827. Extr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827 and c...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
Concerning the lading at Leghorn of Thorvaldsen’s artworks for the Academy of Fine Arts and...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
Thorvaldsen’s marble reliefs for the facade of Christiansborg Palace will now be cast in plaster ...
N.C.L. Abrahams
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abrahams makes sarcastic remarks about the lack of real news from Copenhagen; the marriage betwee...
Gaetano Michi
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
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Giuseppe Tausch
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
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Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska encloses a note from Zofia Potocka and emphasizes that the latter is very pleased wit...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen has been unanimously elected director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...
Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brun is suffering, she has no hope of recovery and wants to die, but she looks forward to seeing ...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
The art lovers of Copenhagen are told what the reasons are why it has not yet been possible to ex...
Ludwig von Schwanthaler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen. He reminds him to send the marble relief The Gra...
Marie Lehmann, Bolette Puggaard, Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Puggaard has heard that the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, A601, is finished a...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard writes about all the preparations made in order to get Thorvaldsen and his works home wi...
Georg von Reinbeck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Reinbeck thanks Thorvaldsen for the first shipment of plaster casts for the planned museum in Stu...
Den kongelige Direktion for Statsgælden og den Synkende Fond
Committeen for Salg af Gibsafstøbninger af Thorvaldsens Arbeider, Hans Puggaard
The committee gets permission to use a vacant lease in the Bourse for free until another potentia...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the Schiller Association – and especially on his own behalf – the chairm...
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
A room in the Bourse is converted for the production and sale of plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s w...
Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum
Omnes
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Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum
Omnes
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Wilckens
The plasterer is to cast a piece of a frieze, probably The Entry into Jerusalem, Nysø20.
John Gibson
Henry Sandbach
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John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
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Ludvig Müller
Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum
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John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
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Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard writes that they have put the roof tree on Thorvaldsens Museum. He and a few others have...
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
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Marie Lehmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Marie Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen and hopes that he will remain in Rome until...
J.F. Schouw
Just Mathias Thiele
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Gustav Edvard Brock
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Brock sends the list of the objects in Thorvaldsen’s estate that Christine Stampe lays clai...
G. Chiappa
Omnes
In an article about the Malaspina Museum in Pavia, the chronicler Giuseppe Chiappa reports the ne...
Johanne Juliane Antonetti
Omnes
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Abraham Meyer
Just Mathias Thiele
Meyer requests a cast of Thorvaldsen’s self-portrait, cf. A223.