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Date	Events	Whereabouts	Works
19.11.1770	Thorvaldsen is born in Copenhagen.
19.11.1770 - 1771		Residence at 7 Grønnegade, the side wing, 2nd floor, Copenhagen.
1771 - presumably 1775		Residence at 12 Vingårdstræde, Copenhagen.
Presumably 1775 - 1780		Residence in Dronningens Tværgade, in a garret in a back building, Copenhagen.
Presumably 1780 - 1787		Residence at 12 Ny Adelgade, Copenhagen.
October 1781	Thorvaldsen is admitted to the first part of the Academy of Fine Art’s freehand drawing school (1. frihåndsskole).
October 1782	Thorvaldsen is admitted to the second part of the Academy of Fine Art’s freehand drawing school (2. frihåndsskole).
Presumably 1785 - 1790			Grandfather Clock, N150.
3.1.1785	Advances to the plaster school of the Academy of Fine Arts.
2.1.1786	Advances to the model school of the Academy of Fine Arts.
1787			Works on a portrait bust in clay, seen by Wilhelm Theodor Ferrini in Thorvaldsen’s home. It is not known who was portrayed.
2.1.1787	Awarded the small silver medal of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Not later than March 1787		Residence at 20 Laksegade, ground floor, 20, Copenhagen.
15.4.1787	Confirmation in Holmen’s Church, Copenhagen.
Presumably 1789 - 1790		Residence at 13 Åbenrå, one half of the first floor, Copenhagen.
1789			The Royal Coat of Arms, A787.
1789			Executes four stone lions for two gates at Frederiksberg Runddel outside Frederiksberg Gardens.
Spring 1789			Cupid Resting, A756.
30.5.1789	Awarded the large silver medal of the Academy of Fine Arts for the relief Cupid Resting, A756.
Beginning of the 1790s	Forms a society for drawing with C.D. Fritzsch, Heinrich Grosch and Carl Probsthayn in order to practise composition drawing for the competitions of Academy of Fine Arts.
Not later than 14.9.1790			Marie Sophie Frederikke, portrait medallion, plaster, location unknown.
Completed 14.9.1790			Executes three statues, Fama, Denmark and The Patron Gods of Norway, height c. 230 cm, for a temporary triumphal gate at Kongens Nytorv celebrating the arrival of Crown Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke in Copenhagen.
1791		Residence in Store Brøndstræde or Lille Brøndstræde, Copenhagen.
1791 - 29.8.1796		Residence and workroom at 13, Åbenrå, the entire first floor, Copenhagen.
1.6.1791 - August 1791			Helidorus Driven out of the Temple, A829.
15.8.1791	Awarded the small gold medal of the Academy of Fine Arts for the relief Helidorus Driven out of the Temple, A829.
Autumn 1791			Achilles and Priam, A791.
1792			Hercules and Omphale, A749.
1792			Numa Pomphilius and Egeria, A748, first version.
1792			Man on Horseback, A872.
1792	Member of the Holstein theatrical society Det Holstenske Dramatiske Selskab.
31.3.1792	Helidorus Driven out of the Temple, A829 is displayed in the assembly hall of the Academy of Fine Arts as are the other prizewinning works of art.
Not later than 1793			Models a portrait of the painter Nicolaus Wolff. Whether a medaillon or a bust is unknown.
Presumably 1793			Johanne Cathrine Rosing, A816.
1793			Mother and Two Children, A750.
1793			The Children of Simon Jensen, A766, and A769.
1793			Charlotte Kirstine Reiersen, A897.
1793			Eleonora Maria Jensen, A765, and A768.
1793			Elisabeth Christine Saxtorph, A904.
1793			Holger Christian Reiersen, A896.
1793			Louise Augusta, A818.
1793			Matthias Saxtorph, A903.
1793			Michael Rosing, A815.
1793			Simon Jensen, A764, and A767.
June - July 1793			Peter and John Healing a Lame Man, Nysø127r. Sketch for A830.
June - July 1793			Peter and John Healing a Lame Man, Nysø127v. Sketch for A830.
June 1793 - 7.8.1793			Peter and John Healing a Lame Man, A830.
14.8.1793	Awarded the large gold medal of the Academy of Fine Arts, F35, for the relief Peter and John Healing a Lame Man, A830.
Autumn 1793	Member of Det dramatiske-literaire Selskab, known as Borups Selskab (The Dramatic and Literary Society, Borup’s Society).
30.12.1793	Awarded a one-year scholarship of 100 rix-dollars by the Academy of Fine Arts. The scholarship was known as the “The copperplate engraver’s pension” (Kobberstikker-Pensionen).
1794			The Hours, A772.
1794			The Hours, Dep.22, executed from a sketch by Abildgaard.
1794			The Hours, plaster relief, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794			Euterpe, A757.
1794			Euterpe, statue, stucco, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794			Self-portrait, C885.
1794			Terpsichore, A758.
1794			Terpsichore, statue, stucco, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794			Two Muses, statues, stucco, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794			The Seasons, Dep.21, from Abildgaard’s sketch.
1794			The Seasons, plaster relief, Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen.
1794			Jon Erichsen, cf. casts A795 og A862.
1794			Olav Olavsen, drawing, location unknown.
1794	Meets Johan Tobias Sergel while working at Amalienborg.
1.1.1794			Watercolour drawing for Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals, CX11 [Dep.19].
Not later than 31.3.1794			Minotaurus(?), clay, location unknown.
Middle of May 1794			Portrait of Peter Olivarius Bugge, now lost drawing for the engraving E2297.
Presumably 19.5.1794	Attends a memorial ceremony for the late Peter Olivarius Bugge at the Shooting Society in Coprenhagen.
November - December 1794			Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, final version of the relief from 1792.
Presumably 1795			Unknown, A913.
Presumably 1795 - 1796			Christian Ulrich Detlev von Eggers, C747.
Presumably 1795 - 1796			Hans Marcussen Ammitzbøll, watercolour and pencil on paper, Vejle Kunstmuseum.
1795			A.P. Bernstorff, A724.
1795			A.P. Bernstorff, A856.
1795			C. Pram, private collection, drawing for the engraving E2299.
1795			Christian Ulrich Detlev von Eggers, drawing for the engraving E2296.
1.1.1795			Watercolour drawing for Sophie Probsthayn, C821.
5.1.1795	Shows the relief Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, to the Academy of Fine Arts, with the result that his one-year scholarship of 100 rix-dollars is extended.
23.2.1795	Receives a visit from the portrait painter Hans Hansen in his home Åbenrå 13, Copenhagen.
2.11.1795	Applies for the travel grant of the Academy of Fine Arts, which is awarded on the same day.
December 1795			Carl Wilhelm Anton Eegholm, C754.
Not later than 1796			Bernt Anker?, A782.
Not later than 1796			Cecilia Kirstine Monrad, A745 og A747.
Not later than 1796			Peter Johan Monrad, A744 og A746.
Not later than 1796			Thomas Thaarup, drawing, the Theatre Museum, Copenhagen, drawing for the engraving E2298.
Presumably 1796			Unknown, A888.
1796			A.P. Bernstorff, A743.
1796			A.P. Bernstorff, A817.
Not later than January 1796			Ole Johan Samsøe, C755.
Spring 1796	With the help of A.P. Bernstorff and encouraged by Peder Horrebow Haste, among others, Thorvaldsen obtains the permission of the Admiralty to travel to Italy with the frigate Thetis on her expedition to the Mediterranean.
6.3.1796	Is godfather to Henriette Johanne and Peder Friis’ daughter, Petrine Christine Engelbrechtine Friis (1796-1820).
9.3.1796	Takes part in the wedding celebration of Frederike Dorothea and Peter Hanning Hammer.
Not later than middle of March 1796			Frederike Dorothea Hammer, C746.
Not later than middle of March 1796			Peter Hanning Hammer, portrait drawing, private collection.
Not later than middle of March 1796			Peter Hanning Hammer, portrait medallion, location unknown.
Not later than 27.3.1796			Ernst Heinrich Løffler, A864 og A630.
31.3.1796	A.P. Bernstorff, A856, is shown to Hereditary Prince Frederik at the Academy of Fine Arts.
20.5.1796 - 30.8.1796			Charlotte Amalie Fisker, portrait drawing, location unknown.
Presumably June 1796			Commemorative pamphlet for Ole Johan Samsøe, drawing for engraved vignette in the magazine Thalia.
Summer 1796			F.C. Willerup, bust, probably plaster, location unknown.
1.7.1796	Thorvaldsen’s travel grant takes effect officially.
Not later than August 1796			Hans Christopher Sonnin, portrait drawing, private collection.
Not later than August 1796			Jens Ulstrup, portrait drawing, private collection.
Not later than August 1796			Johanne Ulstrup, portrait drawing, private collection.
Middle of August 1796	Farewell party for Thorvaldsen at the Royal Shooting Range. A song by Peder Horrebow Haste is sung.
23.8.1796	Receives Instructions from the Academy of Fine Arts concerning his journey.
29.8.1796	Thorvaldsen goes on board the frigate Thetis.
30.8.1796		Thorvaldsen leaves Copenhagen on board the frigate Thetis.
31.8.1796		Thetis passes Skagen.
3.9.1796		Thetis passes Dogger Bank.
6.9. - 7.9.1796	The frigate Thetis shoots at English ships in the North Sea.
8.9.1796		Thetis passes North Foreland Lighthouse and enters the English Channel.
9.9.1796		Thetis anchors near Dover due to fog.
11.9.1796		Thetis passes Isle of Wight.
13.9. - 15.9.1796		Thetis lies off the isle of Portland in the English Channel.
16.9.1796		Thetis passes Prawle Point.
19.9.1796		Thetis passes Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth.
20.9.1796		Thetis leaves the English Channel.
21.9. - 6.10.1796			Gerhard Sievers Bille, C750.
23.9.1796		Thetis passes the island Ushant.
29.9.1796			Johan Christian Gustav Hohlenberg, C756.
30.9.1796		Thetis passes Cape Finisterre.
October or December 1796			Laurits Jensen Grove, portrait drawing, location unknown.
2.10.1796		The frigate Thetis exchanges a few shots with two Portuguese frigates off the coast of Portugal.
4.10.1796		Thetis passes Cape St. Vincent.
7.10.1796		Thetis passes Gibraltar.
8.10.1796		Thetis anchors at Malaga. Thorvaldsen and others go ashore. He calls on the Danish consul. Visits churches and goes to the theatre, etc.
9.10.1796		The frigate Thetis waits for favourable wind. Thorvaldsen and Peder Pavels go ashore in Malaga, visit a hospital, some churches, and a coffee house.
10.10.1796		Thorvaldsen, Peder Pavels, H.A. Schmidt o.a. går igen i land i Malaga og besøger kirker, kaffehus m.m.
11.10.1796		The frigate Thetis weighs anchor and leaves Malaga, heading for Algiers.
16.10.1796		The frigate Thetis reaches Algiers and leaves its companion, the “present ship” Laurentius, there.
17.10. - 22.10.1796		The frigate Thetis sails towards Malta in stormy weather.
24.10.1796		The frigate Thetis reaches Malta and is quarantined against the risk of plague.
26.10. - 6.11.1796			Lorens Henrich Fisker, portrait drawing, Frederiksborg, Hillerød.
26.10. - 6.11.1796			Lorens Henrich Fisker, portrait drawing, location unknown.
29.10.1796		Under Thetis’ karantæne tager fregattens officerer, H.A. Schmidt, Peder Pavels og Thorvaldsen på rotur rundt i Vallettas havn.
Beginning of November 1796			Charlotte Amalie Fisker, portrait drawing, Frederiksborg, Hillerød.
3.11.1796	Maltas sundhedskommission fastholder 40 dages karantæne for Thetis fra den dag fregatten forlod Algier. Plus 20 dage, hvis Thetis i mellemtiden sejler til Tripoli.
7.11.1796		The frigate Thetis leaves Malta and heads for Tripoli.
13.11.1796		The frigate Thetis anchors in the harbour of Tripoli.
14.11. - 15.11.1796	Thetis’ kaptajn, Lorens Henrich Fisker forhandler forgæves fred med pashaen af Tripoli, Sidi Yussef.
15.11.1796		Thorvaldsen, Christian Georg Hansen and Peder Pavels go ashore in Tripoli. The same night the frigate Thetis has to weigh anchor due to stormy weather.
16.11. - 22.11.1796		En kraftig storm tvinger Thetis østpå, og først efter fire dage bliver det muligt at sejle tilbage mod Tripoli.
23.11.1796		The frigate Thetis returns to the harbour of Tripoli and is reunited with its captain. Sails two days later towards Malta or Sicily.
Presumably December 1796			G.F. Rørbye, C751.
2.12.1796		The frigate Thetis returns to Malta, in quarantine against the plague until the 18^th of December.
Middle of December 1796			The Centaur Chiron Teaching Achilles Medicin, C499, drawing for the album of the ship’s doctor Hansen.
16.12.1796			H.A. Schmidt, portrait drawing, location unknown.
18.12.1796		The quarantine of the frigate Thetis against the plague is raised, and Thorvaldsen and the crew goes ashore in Valletta.
20.12.1796 - beginning of January 1797	Stays at Scamp’s Palace in Valletta for three weeks together with Pavels while the frigate Thetis is being careened.
21.12.1796	Til middag hos den danske konsul på Malta Joseph Abela (Habela) sammen med bl.a. Lorens Henrich Fisker
26.12.1796		Visits the town of Mdina on Malta accompanied by Peder Pavels, Christian Georg Hansen, G.F. Rørbye and H.A. Schmidt.
At the turn of 1796 - 97			Outline of Fort St. Angelo in the harbour of Valletta, C818r (part of the motive).
End of December 1796			Makes a satiric drawing of an officer of the quarantine board for Peder Pavels, location unknown.
17.1.1797	The frigate Thetis departs from Malta and leaves Thorvaldsen there.
20.1.1797		Departs from Malta aboard a speronaro (coastal vessel) to Palermo on Sicily.
23.1.1797		Arrives at Palermo on Sicily.
25.1.1797	Sees a ceiling decoration by Vincenzo Manno in a church in Palermo. Visits Manno and spends the evening in his company at the local Academy of Fine Art.
26.1.1797	Visits the cathedral and other churches in Palermo.
27.1.1797	Visits Vincenzo Manno in Palermo.
28.1.1797		Departs from Palermo at 7 a.m. aboard a packet boat heading for Naples.
31.1.1797		Arrives at Naples.
1.2.1797	Thorvaldsen meets the Danish envoy to Napoli, Edmund Bourke.
2.2.1797	Visits churches in Naples.
3.2.1797	Has dinner at Bourke’s and meets Wilhelm Tischbein and Jørgen Scheel.
4.2.1797	Visits Tischbein in his studio and looks at antique works of art in Palazzo degli Studi.
5.2.1797	Visits the cathedral in Naples and other churches. After that, an excursion to Portici, where he sees the museum at Reggia di Portici.
6.2.1797	Studies antique art at the Palazzo degli Studi (the Archaeological Museum of Naples).
7.2.1797	Visits the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.
8.2.1797	Visits a number of churces in Naples. Dines with Edmund Bourke.
9.2.1797	Visits Wilhelm Tischbein and, once more, the Capodimonte Museum.
13.2.1797	Visits the porcelain factory Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte in Naples.
14.2.1797	Visits Christian Heigelin and sees his collection of art.
Presumably 15.2. - 5.3.1797	Climbs Mount Vesuvius in the company of the chemist Christoph Heinrich Pfaff.
6.3.1797		Leaves Naples for Rome, travelling along the Appian Way in the company of the German chemist Christoph Heinrich Pfaff.
7.3.1797		Passes Capua, Mola di Gaeta and Passo di Portella in Monte San Biagio on his way to Rome.
8.3.1797		Arrives in Rome. The date was later known as “Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday”.
Not earlier than 8.3.1797 - not later than 1.3.1798		Lives in Via del Babuino 119, Rome.
Not earlier than 8.3.1797	Introduces himself to Georg Zoëga.
May 1797 - 1804	Thorvaldsen supplements his meagre income by drawing figures for the English painter George Augustus Wallis’ landscapes; in some cases he painted directly on the paintings.
June - December 1797			Tyge Rothe, A225.
3.6.1797 - 1799	Rents a workshop in Vicolo delli Aliberti, which used to belong to the sculptor John Flaxman.
Presumably autumn 1797			A.P. Bernstorff, A208, reworked version of A856.
September - December 1797			Carlo Francesco Bassi, A631.
Beginning of October 1797		Spends eight days at Genzano with the Zoëga family.
Presumably winter 1797 - 1798			A.P. Bernstorff, marble, Brahetrolleborg, Fåborg.
18.12.1797 - 24.12.1797		Walking tour in the company of Fernow, Legation counsellor Bielfeld (17??-18??), Johann Jürgen Busch and the painter Johann Martin von Rohden around Rome to Albano, Genzano, Velletri, Cori, Palestrina and Tivoli.
31.12.1797	Arrested along with Carlo Francesco Bassi in connection with riots in the Piazza di Spagna. Released the same day with the help of Francesco Piranesi.
Presumably 1798 - 1804			Melpomene, copy after antique model, marble bust, Nysø.
January - June 1798			Bacchus and Ariadne, A1.
1.1.1798	Receives a document of protection from the Swedish diplomat Francesco Piranesi.
10.2.1798	The French army occupies Rome.
11.2.1798	Receives a passport issued by the Swedish legation in order to be prepared to flee if necessary.
15.2.1798	General Louis Alexandre Berthier (1753-1815) proclaims a Roman republic from the Capitoline Hill.
20.2.1798	Pope Pius VI is kidnapped and dies soon after at Valence in France.
Presumably 1.3.1798 - 1799		Residence at 25 Via Sistina, 3^rd floor, Rome.
25.5.1798	The painter Asmus Jacob Carstens dies.
Not earlier than 25.5.1798	Thorvaldsen is appointed executor of the estate of Asmus Jacob Carstens’ and inherits some drawings.
Summer 1798	Sends crate from Rome to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen containing, among other artworks, the following for the judgment of the academy: Bacchus and Ariadne, A1 and Tyge Rothe, A225.
Not later than June 1798			Bacchus, colossal bust, probably a copy after an antique original, presumably modelled and cast in plaster, hardly carved in marble. Unknown location.
November 1798	Neapolitan troops drive the French army out of Rome.
29.11.1798	King Ferdinand I of Naples enters Rome.
December 1798	French troops drive the Neapolitans out of Rome.
End of 1798	Thorvaldsen’s crate with works and other things sent from Rome to the Academy of Fine Arts arrives in Copenhagen. The crate remains unclaimed at the custom house until the late summer of 1799.
1799			Homer, A751.
1799			Pollux, Dep.24.
1799 - 1800			Agrippa, A759.
1799 - 1800			Cicero, A760.
1799 - 1800			Cicero, A761.
1799 - 1800			The Goddess of Peace, unknown today.
25.2.1799	The Academy of Fine Arts extends Thorvaldsen’s travel grant for another year.
September 1799	Neapolitan troops reconquer Rome and drive out the French army.
30.9.1799	Bacchus and Ariadne, A1 is presented to the members of the Academy of Fine Arts.
November - December 1799	The Roman Republic fails, and the papacy is reinstated during the year 1800.
25.11.1799	The Academy of Fine Arts extends Thorvaldsen’s travel grant for another two years.
Presumably 1800			Melpomene, statue, probably plaster, destroyed by Thorvaldsen himself.
Presumably 1800			Venus and Cupid, A13.
1800			Edmund Bourke, A900.
1800 - May 1804		Residence at 141 Via Sistina, 2nd floor, close to Piazza Barberini, Rome.
January - October 1800			Raphael, A752
Not earlier than April 1800 - not later than October 1800			Begins the first clay model of Jason with the Golden Fleece, cf. A52.
1801			Achilles and Penthesilia, A777.
1801			Mathias Saxtorph, A899. Thorvaldsen left the execution of this bust to another sculptor.
5.2.1801			The Centaur Chiron teaching Achilles Medicin, drawing in the album of Johan Jacob Ekman, private collection.
Spring 1801			Models a portrait bust of Johan Jacob Ekman, location unknown.
Not later than 22.4.1801			The first clay model for Jason with the Golden Fleece, cf. A52, is completed.
Not later than 22.8.1801			Thorvaldsen destroys the first clay model of Jason with the Golden Fleece, executed 1800-1801. The model is unknown today (however, see A52).
October 1801	The sixth year of Thorvaldsen’s travel grant is paid out.
Spring 1802	Sends five crates to the Academy of Fine Arts by the frigate Triton. The crates contain marble busts, books, etc.
Summer 1802		Prepares his departure from Rome in order to return to Denmark.
June 1802		Postpones his departure from Rome. Plans to travel with Georg Zoëga to Denmark in the spring of 1803.
5.6.1802	J.L. Lund arrives in Rome and takes up residence at Palazzo Galloppi Volpi, 21 Via del Quirinale.
1.7.1802	Thorvaldsen’s travel grant from the Academy of Fine Arts officially expires.
Presumably autumn 1802			Begins making the clay model for Jason with the Golden Fleece, cf. A52.
Presumably November 1802	Makes the acquaintance of Caroline and Wilhelm von Humboldt.
9.11.1802	After having stayed south of Rome for about a month, Friederike Brun moves into Villa Malta in Rome with her daughter Ida.
10.12.1802	The frigate Triton arrives in Copenhagen with five crates from Thorvaldsen in Rome. The crates are placed at the custom house and remain unclaimed at least until the autumn of 1803.
24.12.1802	Celebrates Christmas Eve in Villa Malta at Caroline and Wilhelm von Humboldt in the company of Ida and Friederike Brun, Georg Zoëga, Carl Ludwig Fernow, Heinrich Keller, J.L. Lund, Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, Carl Gotthard Grass and Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch.
1803			Briseis and Achilles, A490.
Beginning of 1803	Herman Schubart arrives in Rome and meets Thorvaldsen, probably through Georg Zoëga.
28.1.1803			The clay model for Jason with the Golden Fleece is almost done. The model is seen by Friederike Brun, who then finances the original plaster cast, A52.
Presumably 19.3.1803 - 1815	Studio at 30 Vicolo della Catena, Piazza Barberini, Rome.
19.3.1803	Celebrating the making of the plaster cast of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52. Thorvaldsen is crowned with a laurel wreath by Ida Brun.
Not earlier than 19.3. - not later than 21.3.1803	Thomas Hope sees Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52, in the studio and commissions a marble version of the statue, A822.
Not earlier than 19.3. - not later than 21.3.1803		Thorvaldsen’s return to Denmark is temporarily postponed due to Thomas Hope’s commission for Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52, in marble, A822.
23.3.1803	Thorvaldsen receives the first part of the payment for Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822 from Thomas Hope.
23.3.1803 - August 1803			Finelli & Keller begin work on Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
23.3.1803 - August 1803	Makes a contract with the sculptors Finelli & Keller for the delivery of a block of marble and the execution of the rough carving of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
3.4.1803	Meets Friederike and Ida Brun in the Villa Borghese gardens. Asks Ida to perform artistic poses (attitudes) with the words “oh! just some poses” (“o kuns nogle Stillinger!”).
13.5.1803	Attends the farewell party for Friederike Brun in the company of many Roman notabilities.
Summer 1803	Thorvaldsen is taken ill.
Summer 1803		Spends the summer in Albano, probably in the company of Anna Maria Uhden.
10.6.1803	Friederike and Ida Brun leave Rome.
Presumably September 1803		Returns to Rome from his summer stay at Albano.
November 1803	Herman Schubart encourages his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann to promote Thorvaldsen’s cause in Copenhagen.
Presumably November 1803 - January 1804	Meets Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke.
November 1803 - January 1804			Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke, A212.
November 1803 - January 1804			Ivan Vorontsov?, A302.
November 1803 - January 1804			Jevdokija Ivanovna Golitsyna, cf. A304.
Winter 1803 - 1804	Meets the Russian Countess Irina Vorontsova in Rome.
1804			Ganymede Offering the Cup, A41.
Beginning of 1804 - April 1804			A.P. Bernstorff, A209.
1804 - 1805			Venus, marble, ca. 130 cm, National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania. Cf. the larger version A12.
1804 - March 1806			A.P. Bernstorff, A207, marble version of A209 in reduced size.
7.1.1804	Thorvaldsen’s mother Karen Thorvaldsen dies in Copenhagen.
9.2.1804	Thorvaldsen and Christian Hornbech receive H.M. Frisch and his wife Dorothea in the Piazza del Popolo on their arrival in Rome.
Spring 1804			Theodor von der Ropp commissions some marble busts after antique models. Later also Venus, cf. A12, and Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, both marble National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Spring 1804			The statues Bacchus, A2 and Ariadne are commissioned by Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke. The commission is later cancelled by Moltke for economic reasons.
6.3.1804	Receives a grant from Fonden ad usus publicos (The Foundation for the Support of Cultural and Social Purposes), thereby obtaining official acceptance of his continuance in Rome.
End of March 1804	Conducts a party on a tour of Rome to various artists, among them Angelika Kauffmann, Joh. Christian Reinhardt, and probably J.L. Lund.
5.4.1804	H.M. Frisch and his wife Dorothea visit Thorvaldsen’ studio and see Jason, A822, and Briseis and Achilles, A490.
Presumably not later than 10.4.1804	Employs the marble carvers Camillo Landini and Peter Kaufmann in his studio. J.L. Lund supervises the studio while Thorvaldsen is away.
Not earlier than 10.4. - not later than 19.4.1804		Travels from Rome to Naples together with Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke one day during this period.
Not earlier than 10.4. - not later than 19.5.1804		Spends at least one day and night at the ruins of Paestum with Christoph Heinrich Kniep.
Not earlier than 10.4. - not later than 19.5.1804		Attends an archeological dig at Pompeii with, among others, Christoph Heinrich Kniep, who makes a drawing of the visit.
May 1804 - 24.3.1844		Residence in the Roman pension Casa Buti, 46 Via Sistina, first floor.
20.5.1804		Travels from Naples to Rome.
20.5.1804	Passport issued for Leghorn in Rome.
Not earlier than 24.5.1804		Leaves Rome for Florence in the company of Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke.
June 1804 - beginning of July 1804		Stays in Florence, first in the company of Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke, then alone.
Not later than 2.7.1804	A studio is fitted up for Thorvaldsen by the Schubart family at Montenero near Leghorn.
Not earlier than 9.7. - not later than 16.7.1804		Travels to the Schubart family at Montenero and arrives not later than 16.7.1804.
Not earlier than 9.7. - not later than 6.8.1804			Herman Schubart, A718.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810			Apollon Belvedere, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810			Bacchus, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810			Cicero, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810			Homer, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810			Melpomene, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810			Sappho, presumably copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Not earlier than August 1804 - not later than 1810			Venus Medici, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
Begun 6.8.1804			Jacqueline Schubart, A719.
11.8.1804		Passport issued for a trip from Leghorn to Genoa and back.
Middle of August 1804		Travels with Herman Schubart to the marble quarries in Carrara and to Genoa.
End of August 1804		Selects blocks of marble at Carrara.
Autumn 1804	Outbreak of yellow fever in and around Leghorn.
Presumably 10.9.1804		Return to Montenero.
23.9.1804	Appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Accademia Fiorentina.
Completed not later than 24.9.1804			The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, plaster model for the relief, cf. A705, made for Jacqueline Schubart as a birthday present.
24.9.1804		Departure from Montenero.
25.9.1804		Travels from Leghorn bound for Rome in the company of Friedrich Matthäi.
Beginning of October 1804		Returns to Rome.
Completed December 1804			Bacchus, A2.
Presumably 1805 - 1806			Christoph August Tiedge, A851.
Presumably 1805 - 1806			Christoph August Tiedge, marble, whereabouts unknown.
Presumably 1805 - 1806			Elisa von der Recke, A852.
Presumably 1805 - 1806			Elisa von der Recke, A869.
1805			Apollo, A3.
1805			Conrad Rantzau, A211.
1805			A monument to Dante is commissioned for the church of St. Croce, Florence. The monument is never executed by Thorvaldsen but is given to the sculptor Stefano Ricci (1765-1837) in 1830, cf. the drafts C553r, C554, C555r og C555v.
1805			Begins a sculpture, Mars and Venus, later reworked as Mars Bringing Peace, cf. D174, which in turn becomes the starting point for Mars and Cupid, A7.
1805 - 1806			Conrad Rantzau, marble bust, Schloss Breitenburg, Holstein, cf. A211.
1805 - 1806			Christoph August Tiedge, A240.
1805 - 1806			Elisa von der Recke, A879.
Presumably 9.1.1805	Thorvaldsen’s friend, C.F.F. Stanley arrives in Rome and moves into Casa Buti.
Presumably spring 1805			Models a portrait bust of Caroline von Humboldt. The location of the original model is unknown, but the marble version was in Schloss Tegel, Berlin, until 1945, and is now at the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
Beginning of March 1805	C.F.F. Stanley proposes that Gotskalk Thorvaldsen be admitted to Vartov (an institution for the poor, sick and old) in Copenhagen.
26.4.1805	Andreas Weidenhaupt dies, and a professorship in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts becomes vacant.
6.5.1805	Thorvaldsen becomes a member of the Academy of Fine Arts and is nominated for the vacant post of professor of sculpture.
Summer 1805			Inquiry from the President of the USA, Thomas Jefferson, about the execution of a monument to Freedom. The negotiations do not result in a commission. Female figure in a Phrygian cap, C6r, might be a sketch for this monument.
Summer 1805 - March 1806			Herman Schubart, A219.
Summer 1805 - June 1806			Socrates, copy after an antique bust in Villa Albani, location unknown.
1.6.1805	Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is admitted to Vartov (an institution for the poor, sick and old) in Copenhagen.
7.6.1805	Christian 7. appoints Thorvaldsen professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts.
August - September 1805			The Baptism of Christ, A736, executed for Baptismal Font, A555,1.
August - September 1805			Preliminary work for, or a first version of Minerva and Prometheus, cf. A319.
August 1805 - March 1806			Jacqueline Schubart, A220.
Beginning of August 1805		Travels from Rome to Montenero via Florence and Leghorn in the company of Conrad Rantzau.
9.8.1805		Arrives at Montenero.
16.8.1805	Elected honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
Autumn 1805			Caroline von Humboldt, marble bust, Schloss Tegel, Berlin until 1945, now at the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
September 1805 - 26.4.1806			Camillo Landini finishes the statue Bacchus, probably lost, cf. A2.
11.9.1805		Leaves most likely Montenero this day with Christian Stub. Passport for Rome is issued in Leghorn.
Middle of September 1805		Travels to Pisa and visits Filippo Mazzei to discuss a possible commission for a monument to Freedom for the USA.
Middle of September 1805		Stays in Florence for two days in the company of Christian Stub.
19.9.1805		Passes through the town of Acquapendente, ca. 130 km north of Rome.
21.9.1805		Arrives in Rome.
Not earlier than 21.9.1805			Jupiter Otricoli, copy after antique model, marble bust, location unknown.
28.9.1805	Caspar Bartholin dies. Thorvaldsen takes his deathmask, which later is used as the model of the bust A227.
Middle of November 1805	The Danish painter C.F. Høyer arrives in Rome. He probably moves into Casa Buti at once.
18.11.1805	Thorvaldsen’s close friend C.F.F. Stanley dies.
20.11.1805	In the evening, C.F.F. Stanley is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. The grave is not known today.
Not later than December 1805			Draws Cupid with a Butterfly for Herman Schubart’s birthday, probably Dep.7.
Presumably 1806			Jacob Laurids Thrane, A881.
1806			Herman Schubart, A812.
1806			Jacqueline Schubart, A813.
1806 - February 1807			Hebe, A37.
14.1.1806	Attends the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome, but without Schubart’s presence.
14.2.1806			Requested to execute a design for a monument to the victory of the United States over Tripoli in 1805. The work is never commissioned.
12.3.1806	Thorvaldsen’s friend Christian Stub dies.
Presumably June 1806			Jacob Baden, A802.
Summer 1806 - summer 1807			The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, A705, unfinished.
Not later than June 1806			Apollon, copy after Apollon Giustiniani, marble, Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
June - September 1806			Jacob Baden, A863.
Autumn 1806			Psyche, A26.
Completed not later than 5.9.1806			Caritas, C820, given to Jacqueline Schubart on the occasion of her birthday 10.9.1806.
24.10.1806	Thorvaldsen’s father Gotskalk Thorvaldsen dies at Vartov (an institution for the poor, sick and old) in Copenhagen.
Presumably 9.11.1806	Andreas Dobert Kalleberg and Jacob Laurids Thrane leave Rome bound for Denmark.
Winter 1806 - 1807			Psyche, statue, marble, ca 130 cm, location unknown.
31.12.1806			C.F. Hansen commissions four reliefs for the facade of Christiansborg Palace that later become Hercules and Hebe, cf. A317, Hygieia and Aesculapius, cf. A318, Minerva and Prometheus, cf. A319, and Nemesis and Jupiter, cf. A320. He also commissions works, never completed, for the facade of the Copenhagen Town Hall and Courthouse.
1807 - 1808			Minerva and Prometheus, A319.
Not later than 14.1.1807			Bacchus Offering Cupid a Drink, C715, is executed for Herman Schubarts birthday.
14.1.1807	Takes part in the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome, arranged by Friedrich Matthäi, without Schubart’s presence.
February 1807 - 22.10.1808			Baptismal Font, marble version for the church of Brahetrolleborg, Funen, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4.
Spring 1807			Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow. Only known from Mori, op. cit.. Later reworked as Cupid Triumphant, A22.
April 1807	Tutors Ida Brun in drawing.
29.4.1807			Marcus Gerhard Rosencrone commissions a bust of his late father-in-law Henrik Hielmstierne. However, the bust is not modelled until probably 1812, cf. A210.
4.5.1807	Elected honorary member of the Accademia Italiana. It is uncertain whether the membership was confirmed.
Not earlier than June 1807			The Virgin with Jesus and John, A556, reworked version of relief on Baptismal Font, A555,2.
Not earlier than June 1807 - not later than 1808			Baptismal Font, A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4.
Not earlier than June 1807 - not later than 1808			Christ Blessing the Children, A737, maybe executed as a sketch for Baptismal Font, A555,4.
Not later than 6.6.1807			Jacob Laurids Thrane, Dep.36.
Not later than July 1807			Cupid and Psyche, A28.
21.9.1807		Thorvaldsen returns to Rome after a short stay in the country.
31.12.1807	The colony of German and Scandinavian artists in Rome celebrates New Year’s eve. Among those present are: Thorvaldsen, Rauch, Wahl, Bøhndel, Wagner, Welcker, Jollage, Hopfgarten, Eberhard, Dall’Armi, brødrene Riepenhausen, Kauffmann and J.L. Lund.
Presumably not later than 1808			A Genio Lumen (The Genius of Art and Light), A517, probably preparatory work for A518.
1808			A Genio Lumen (The Genius of Art and Light), A518.
1808			Adonis, A53.
1808			Wilhelm von Humboldt, A237.
1808			Makes drawings in collaboration with the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch for a sepulchral monument to the Briton William Sidney Bowles. The monument still stands in the Protestant cemetery [Cimitero Acattolico], Rome, parte antica, stone 16.
Not earlier than 1808			A Genio Lumen (The Genius of Art and Light), A828.
Not earlier than 1808			Adonis, A789.
Completed January 1808			The plaster model of Mars Bringing Peace is completed, cf. Ferdinando Mori’s drawing D174. This figure of Mars later formed part of the group Mars and Cupid, A7.
Not later than 14.1.1808			The drawing The Virgin with Jesus and John is executed for Herman Schubart’s birthday, private collection, Sanderumgaard, Funen.
14.1.1808	Herman Schubart’s birthday is celebrated in Thorvaldsen’s apartment in Rome, but without Schubart’s presence. The party is arranged by J.L. Lund.
6.3.1808	Elected member and professor at the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome.
Autumn 1808			Ludwig (1.) commissions Adonis, cf. A53, in marble, today at the Neue Pinakothek, München. The statue is not completed until October 1831.
Autumn 1808			Statuette of Vesta is executed for Herman Schubart’s birthday 14.1.1809, location unknown.
Middle of September 1808	Jacqueline and Herman Schubart visit Rome and Thorvaldsen for a couple of months.
Presumably November 1808			Hercules and Hebe, A317.
Presumably November 1808			Hygieia and Aesculapius, A318.
Middle of November 1808	Jacqueline and Herman Schubart leave Rome after two months’ stay.
Presumably 1809			Mercury Brings Bacchus to Ino, A346, reworked version of A347.
Presumably 1809 - 1810			Hercules and Hebe, A321, reduced version of A317.
Presumably 1809 - 1810			Hygieia and Aesculapius, A322, reduced version of A318.
1809			Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, A780.
1809			Cupid Riding on a Lion, A388.
1809			Mercury Brings Bacchus to Ino, A347.
1809			The Birth of Venus, A348.
1809			Ida Brun, A218.
1809			Sophie Dorothea Høyer, A228.
1809			Wilhelm Malte Putbus commissions more reliefs for his castle on the island of Rügen.
1809	Visits the Pantheon, Rome, and sees Gaspare Landi’s and Vincenzo Camuccini’s paintings for the church of San Giovanni in Canale, Piacenza.
Not earlier than 1809			Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, A417.
Not earlier than 1809			Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, A418, reworked version of A780.
14.1.1809	Organizes the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome, but without Schubart’s presence.
10.2.1809			Georg Zoëga, C761r, is portrayed on his deathbed.
10.2.1809	Georg Zoëga dies, Thorvaldsen is appointed one of the executors of the estate.
April 1809	Adam Oehlenschläger arrives in Rome and is introduced to Thorvaldsen by Georg Koës.
Summer 1809		Visits Friederike Brun in Albano and Oehlenschläger in Grottaferata.
4.6.1809	Nicolai Abildgaard dies at Sorgenfri (near Copenhagen). Thorvaldsen hears about his death for the first time in a letter from Herman Schubart, 27.7.1809.
8.6.1809	Crown Prince Ludwig 1. of Bavaria consults Thorvaldsen regarding acquisitions of antique works of art.
July 1809	Joseph Anton Koch proposes the publication of a book with engravings of Thorvaldsen’s works. The idea is abandoned by the end of 1809.
6.7.1809	Pope Pius VII is abducted from Rome.
Not later than 10.9.1809			The Virgin and Child, drawing, private collection, is given to Jacqueline Schubart on the occasion of her birthday.
16.9.1809	Appointed member of a commission for an official art exhibition in Rome, arranged by the French government.
October 1809	The archaeologist P.O. Brøndsted arrives in Rome and makes friends with Thorvaldsen.
Not later than 19.11.1809			Ida Brun, A810.
Completed December 1809			Hector with Paris and Helen, A499.
24.12.1809	Celebrates Christmas Eve in the house of the Riepenhausen brothers, with P.O. Brøndsted, Georg Koës and others. The Christmas party concludes with dancing.
Presumably 1810			Mars and Cupid, A7.
Presumably 1810			Nemesis and Jupiter, A324, reduced version of A320.
Presumably 1810			Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan’s Smithy, A419.
Presumably 1810			Alexandra von Dietrichstein, A238.
1810			Cupid Revives Psyche, A431.
1810			Caritas, A598.
1810			Nemesis and Jupiter, A320.
1810			Bertel Thorvaldsen, A223.
1810	Becomes friendly with Christian Daniel Rauch.
1810	Thorvaldsen is invited by the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm 3. to compete with the sculptor Antonio Canova for the execution of a monument to Queen Luise. Instead, Thorvaldsen passes on the commission to his pupil Christian Daniel Rauch. See Thorvaldsen’s sketch C182r, which may be connected with Luise’s monument.
Not earlier than 1810			Cupid with a Swan and Boys Picking Fruit, Summer, A410.
Not earlier than 1810			Cupid and Bacchus, A408.
Not earlier than 1810			Cupid and Bacchus, Autumn, A412.
Not earlier than 1810			Cupid Revives Psyche, A430.
Not earlier than 1810			Cupid Revives Psyche, A866.
Not earlier than 1810			Caritas, A597.
2.1.1810	Christian Daniel Rauch’s birthday is celebrated by Caroline von Humboldt. Among those present are; J.L. Lund and probably also Thorvaldsen.
Not later than 14.1.1810			Hygieia and Cupid, drawing, location unknown, is presented to Herman Schubart on the occasion of his birthday.
14.1.1810	Organizes the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome, but without Schubart’s presence.
28.1.1810	Awarded the Order of Dannebrog, which is forwarded to him by Herman Schubart.
Spring 1810			Mother with Child, receiving fruits from another woman, relief, location unknown.
Spring 1810	Goethe asks for a line drawing of one of Thorvaldsen’s sculptures through Caroline von Humboldt.
March 1810			Vincenzo Camuccini, A282.
Not earlier than April 1810			Vincenzo Camuccini, A281.
End of April 1810	P.O. Brøndsted and Georg Koës leave Rome heading for Greece.
Summer 1810	Thorvaldsen is probably ill.
28.7.1810	Probably attends the farewell party for J.L. Lund.
August 1810 - January 1816	Rents two workshops in Via dei Cappuccini near the intersection with Via della Purificazione.
8.8.1810		Passport for Leghorn issued in Rome.
11.8.1810	J.L. Lund leaves Rome, bound for Copenhagen, in the company of Friederike Brun and Ida Brun.
22.8.1810		Passport stamped in Florence on his way to Leghorn.
End of August 1810		Arrives at Montenero. The first part of the journey in the company of Ida and Friederike Brun.
Presumably September 1810			Cupid with a Swan and Boys Picking Fruit, Summer, A411.
Presumably September 1810			Cupid and Bacchus, Autumn, A413.
10.9.1810	Thorvaldsen gives Jacqueline Schubart the model of Cupid Revives Psyche, A431, for her birthday.
15.9.1810		Passport stamped in Leghorn in order to begin the journey back to Rome.
19.9.1810		Arrives at Florence.
22.9.1810	Probably meets Antonio Canova in Santa Croce in Florence to see the latter’s funerary monument to Vittorio Alfieri.
25.9.1810		Passport stamped in Florence. The journey back to Rome is probably via Siena in the company of Christian Daniel Rauch.
October 1810	Meets the Swedish sculptor Johan Niklas Byström in Rome.
October 1810	Encouraged by Friedrich Wilhelm 3. to compete with Canova to win the order for a funerary monument to the Prussian Queen Louise (1776-1810). Thorvaldsen, however, refuses to take part in the competition.
19.11.1810	J.L. Lund returns to Copenhagen from Rome.
1811	The brothers Riepenhausen and Ferdinando Mori publish a book with line engravings of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Presumably January 1811			The sculptures Venus with the Apple and Bacchus (probably versions of A12 and A2) are commissioned by Wilhelm Malte Putbus.
January 1811	Thorvaldsen suffers from inflammation of the eyes and rheumatism.
Presumably January 1811 - August 1811			Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow, statue, marble, location unknown. Commissioned by Theodor von Hahn. Only known from Mori, op. cit.
Not later than 14.1.1811			The Centaur Chiron teaching Achilles to shoot with the Bow, C780, is sent to Herman Schubart for his birthday.
31.1.1811	The brothers Rudolf and Wilhelm Schadow arrive in Rome.
Not later than 5.3.1811			Bertel Thorvaldsen, a version of A223, is commissioned by Hans West for the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
12.3.1811	Elected member of the Königliche Preussische Academie der Künste in Berlin.
April - December 1811	In Denmark Herman Schubart shows the book with line engravings of Thorvaldsen’s works by the brothers Riepenhausen and Ferdinando Mori.
22.5.1811			Reliefs and bust for the Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A700, A701, A702 and A703, are commissioned, and during the year F.W.J. Schelling and Thorvaldsen discuss the execution of the work in their correspondence.
Presumably summer 1811	A marble quarry with white marble is discovered in Norway.
Summer 1811	Peder Malling arrives in Rome.
July 1811	Thorvaldsen’s friendKratzenstein Stub leaves Rome.
28.8.1811	Elected honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Not later than 10.9.1811			The Virgin with Christ and John, Dep.4, is executed for Jacqueline Schubart’s birthday.
Middle of September 1811	His friend C.F. Høyer leaves Rome.
Not earlier than 9.10.1811 - beginning of November 1811		Convalescing at Ariccia with Marianna Rinaldi, probably with his son Carlo Alberto Thorvaldsen, who is also ill. The son died in 1811 possibly during this stay in Ariccia.
Winter 1811 - 1812	The Quirinal Palace is renovated for the expected arrival of Napoleon 1. during the summer of 1812.
Presumably 1812			Two Men on Horseback in the Train of Alexander the Great, A714.
Completed 1812			Sophie Dorothea Høyer, A763.
Not earlier than 1812			Alexander the Great in the Triumphal Chariot, A712.
Not earlier than 1812			Alexander the Great in the Triumphal Chariot, A713.
Not earlier than 1812			Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, A505, reworked version of A503.
12.2.1812	Elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Not earlier than March 1812			Alexander the Great in the Triumphal Chariot, A509.
March - June 1812			Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, plaster frieze, The Quirinal Palace, Rome, cf. A503.
March - June 1812			Plaster casts of Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, A503, are made on the initiative of Peder Malling.
17.5.1812 - 18.5.1812		A Whitsun excursion to Tivoli and the surrounding country in the company of Christian Daniel Rauch, Wilhelm Schadow and Ferdinand Ruscheweyh.
Presumably summer 1812			Henrik Hielmstierne, A210.
Not earlier than August 1812 - not later than 1819			Henrik Hielmstierne, marmorbuste, the Royal Library, cf. A210.
Presumably December 1812			Begins modelling the reliefs and the bust for Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A614,1, A614,2, A614,3 and cf. A703.
December 1812			Sketch drawn for Two Caryatids for Poland (possibly the pencil sketch in C115r).
1813			Caryatid, A55.
1813			Caryatid, A56.
1813 - 1816			Venus with the Apple, A916, reduced version of A12.
1813 - May 1816			Venus with the Apple, A12.
14.1.1813	Attends the celebration of Herman Schubart’s birthday in Rome but without Schubart’s presence.
9.3.1813	Thorvaldsen’s daughter Elisa is born probably on the 9^th of March, the day after his Roman Birthday.
13.3.1813	The daughter Elisa Sophia Charlotte is baptized in San Marcello al Corso, Rome.
May - June 1813	P.O. Brøndsted returns to Rome.
May - July 1813	Thorvaldsen is taken ill with typhoid.
1.7.1813	Portrayed by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein in Rome, (black chalk, 28×21,2 cm, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden).
3.7.1813	C.W. Eckersberg arrives in Rome.
5.7.1813	C.W. Eckersberg moves into Casa Buti.
Not earlier than 9.7.1813		Leaves Rome heading for Montenero in the company of Herman Schubart. The dogs Perucca and Teverino are left in the care of Rudolf Schadow.
Middle of July 1813		Stays in Florence.
26.7.1813		Arrives at Montenero.
Not earlier than 17.8.1813		Travels to Bagni di Lucca (Baths of Lucca).
September 1813			The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, marble relief, cf. A341. Commissioned by Elisa Baciocchi in 1813, probably the copy made in 1829, location unknown.
September 1813	Giovanni Antonio Santarelli makes Thorvaldsen’s portrait in wax and later as a cameo for Sommariva.
September 1813			Models portrait bust of Pietro Benvenuti in Florence, location unknown. Marble version carved during 1814.
End of September 1813		Leaves Bagni di Lucca (Baths of Lucca).
End of September 1813		Travels to Florence at the invitation of Elisa Baciocchi in order to discuss commissions for works of art.
End of September 1813			The relief Virgil reads the Aeneid to Augustus, is commissioned by Elisa Baciocchi, probably never executed.
Not later than 16.10.1813		Returns to Montenero.
12.11.1813		Returns to Rome
25.11.1813	Dines at the house of the German officer Wilhelm Huth with the Danish architect Peder Malling, the German architect G.F. Hetsch and the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg.
31.12.1813	Celebrates New Year’s Eve at the house of the German officer Wilhelm Huth with the Danish architect Peder Malling, the German architect G.F. Hetsch, the Danish painter C.W. Eckersberg and Baron Brown from Norway.
Presumably 1814			Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan’s Smithy, A420, reworked version of A419.
Presumably 1814 - 1820			Anna Potocka?, A251.
1814			Cupid Triumphant, A22.
1814			Monument to Johann Philipp Bethmann-Hollweg, cf. A615,1, A615,2 and A615,3.
1814			Nessus and Deianira, A481.
1814			Edward Pellew, A260. Two marble versions at Canonteign, Devon.
Not earlier than 1814			Nessus and Deianira, A480.
Not earlier than 1814			Woman Mourning, intended for the tomb of Johann Philipp Bethmann-Hollweg, A734.
14.1.1814	Deltager i fejringen af Herman Schubarts fødselsdag i Rom sammen med C.W. Eckersberg, Peder Malling og Wilhelm von Huth, men uden fødselarens tilstedeværelse.
28.1.1814	Awarded the Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies, N24.
5.2.1814	Jacqueline Schubart dies at Montenero.
Spring 1814	Pietro Tenerani is employed by Thorvaldsen.
26.3.1814			Monument to Jacqueline Schubart, A618, is requested by Herman Schubart.
6.4.1814	Member of a commission on the Farnese collection with, among others, Antonio Canova, Massimiliano Laboureur and Antonio d’ Este.
Not later than 11.4.1814			Monument to Jacqueline Schubart, C1075r, drawing, draft for a monument.
24.5.1814			Humility, statue, Sant’Angelo Bridge, Rome. Temporarily installed to mark the return of Pope Pius 7. to Rome.
Not later than 2.7.1814			Monument to Jacqueline Schubart, A704, is being executed in marble.
Not later than 24.7.1814			Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A700, A701, A702 and A703, is finished in marble.
8.8. - 8.9.1814	C.W. Eckersberg paints his famous Portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen, today at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
12.10.1814	Elected honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
25.11.1814	Fanny Caspers and Thorvaldsen meet for the first time in the sculptor’s studio during Casper’s first visit to Rome.
Winter 1814 - 1815			John Russell commissions two reliefs (cf. A490 and A492) and a portrait statue of Georgiana Elizabeth Russell (cf. A173). All three works are in marble, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England.
Winter 1814 - 1815			The bust Georgiana Elizabeth Russell, A315, is executed, presumably as a model for the portrait statue of the same, cf. A173.
31.12.1814	Celebrates New Year’s eve at the house of Wilhelm Huth with Peder Malling, G.F. Hetsch, C.W. Eckersberg and Baron Brown.
Presumably 1815			Day, A370.
Presumably 1815			Seated Lady with a Boy, A170.
Presumably 1815			Seated Lady, A168.
Presumably 1815			Seated Lady, A169.
Presumably 1815 - 1816			Maria Aleksejevna Narysjkina, A248.
Presumably 1815 - 1816			William Bentinck, A261. Marble bust at Welbeck Abbey, North Nottinghamshire.
Presumably 1815 - 1819			The Genii of Life and Death, A158.
Begun 1815			Hebe, A875.
1815			Catharina di Branciforte, A276.
1815			Georg Wilhelm Wilding, A275.
1815			Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja, A167.
Not earlier than 1815			Day, A902.
Not earlier than 1815			Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, A733.
Not earlier than 1815			Night, A901.
Beginning of 1815			Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector’s Body, A492.
1815 - October 1819			Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja, marble statue, The State Herimitage Museum, St. Petersburg (cf. A167).
Not later than 8.1.1815			Portrait Bust of Pietro Benvenuti, marble, 71 cm, today on Benvenuti’s tomb in San Lorenzo, Florence. Probably executed by Giovanni Antonio Santarelli.
18.1.1815	In the Teatro Argentina with Samuel Rogers and others.
6.5.1815	John Russell sends the first instalment of the payment for Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector’s Body, cf. A492.
Presumably summer 1815	Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, marble, Church of Brahetrolleborg, Funen, is shipped from Leghorn and arrives in Copenhagen in the autumn.
Summer 1815			Night, A369.
29.7.1815		Thorvaldsen and C.W. Eckersberg accompany Wilhelm Huth and his family together with Peder Malling and G.F. Hetsch, who are all leaving Rome, as far as La Storta just outside Rome.
Autumn 1815	Several of Thorvaldsen’s works are shown at Charlottenborg on the occasion of the coronation of Frederik 6.’s, among others Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, in marble and several portrait busts.
September 1815	J.L. Lund leaves Copenhagen on his way to Rome.
13.9.1815	Attends the funeral service of Virginio Bracci in San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio.
3.10.1815			Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja commissions the relief Victoria garlands a Fallen Warrior. The relief is unknown today. The drawings C135r, C136, C197r and C204v are probably sketches related to the relief.
6.10.1815	Gives the painter C.W. Eckersberg a gold ring with a precious antique sapphire, with an engraving of Cupid and Bacchus, cf. A797.
10.10.1815	Encouraged by Edmund Bourke to participate in an open competition for the execution of a monument to fallen generals, but refuses.
10.10.1815		Goes on a short trip to Tivoli in the company of C.W. Eckersberg.
13.10.1815		Returns to Rome.
17.10.1815		Goes on a short trip to the towns of Albano and Ariccia near Rome in the company of C.W. Eckersberg.
22.10.1815		Returns to Rome.
4.11.1815	Elizabeth Cavendish visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop in order to see the Aeginetes. There, she meets Charles Robert Cockerell and Johan David Åkerblad.
14.11.1815	Thorvaldsen expands and rebuilds his studio in Vicolo della Catena/Vicolo delle Colonnette.
14.11.1815 - 1844	Workshops at 20 Vicolo delle Colonnette, Piazza Barberini, Rome. Today the street is called Vicolo Barberini.
Presumably 1816			Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, are commissioned in marble by Richard Bingham. The marble reliefs are in Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California.
Presumably 1816			Perhaps models portrait bust of Nikolaj Nikititj Demidov. Marble versions at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and at the Nízhni Tagil Museum in the Urals.
Presumably 1816 - 1817			Anne Bingham?, A308.
Presumably 1816 - 1817			Elizabeth Vernon?, A311.
Presumably 1816 - 1817			Georgiana Bingham?, A313.
Presumably 1816 - 1819			Unknown, A292.
Presumably 1816 - 1819			Unknown, A306.
Presumably 1816 - 1819			Unknown, A314.
Presumably 1816 - 1819			Models a portrait bust of a Valletort, executed in marble not later than 1819. The bust is unknown today.
1816			Ganymede Filling the Cup, A42.
1816			Monument for Jozefa Borkowska, A621.
1816			Hebe, A39.
1816			Hebe, A870, reworked version of A37.
1816			The Dance of the Muses on Helikon, A341.
1816			Catharina di Branciforte, A891.
1816			Georg Wilhelm Wilding, A890.
1816			Mary Ann Montagu, A267.
1816			Michael Coronini-Cronberg, A301.
1816 - presumably 1820			Hebe, A874.
2.1.1816	Lunch with C.W. Eckersberg.
30.1.1816	J.L. Lund returns to Rome, visits Thorvaldsen, and moves in at Casa Buti.
Spring 1816			Alexander Baillie, A262.
Spring 1816			Hans Carl Knudtzon, A231.
Spring 1816			Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon, A230.
Middle of March 1816	Probably attends a party with a Norwegian theme, possibly on the occasion of the two Norwegians, Jørgen Knudtzon’s and Hans Carl Knudtzon’s departure from Rome 19.3.1816.
Not later than 15.3.1816			Jørgen Knudtzon and Alexander Baillie commission the marble relief Cupid and Bacchus, cf. A408. He receives the relief in Trondheim in 1817 (today in the University Museum at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim).
Not later than 15.3.1816			Jørgen Knudtzon and Alexander Baillie commission the marble relief Hector with Paris and Helen, cf. A499. He receives the relief in Trondheim in 1817 (today in the University Museum at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim).
Not later than 15.3.1816			Jørgen Knudtzon and Alexander Baillie commission the marble relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan’s Smithy, cf. A419, today at Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire.
19.3.1816	Jørgen and Hans Carl Knudtzon (and in all probability also Alexander Baillie) leave Rome.
5.4.1816	Gives a collection of engravings as a present to C.W. Eckersberg.
6.4.1816			Wlodzimierz Potocki, cf. A155, is commissioned in marble by Anna Potocka.
Beginning of May 1816			Ganymede Filling the Cup, A43.
12.5.1816	Farewell party C.W. Eckersberg organized by J.L. Lund. Many German artists are present, and probably also Thorvaldsen.
Completed 12.5.1816			C.W. Eckersberg, A224.
13.5.1816	C.W. Eckersberg leaves Rome. Early in the morning Thorvaldsen and others, among them Johan Niklas Byström and J.L. Lund, accompany him as far as Nero’s Tomb outside Rome.
Summer 1816			William Haldimand commissions a portrait bust of himself. The bust, if executed at all, is unknown today.
Summer 1816 - summer 1817			Restores the marble sculptures from the temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, for Ludwig 1. of Bavaria in a studio on Via del Corso close to Piazza del Popolo.
Not earlier than summer 1816			Richard Bingham”:/personer/bingham-richard commissions the first marble copy of Venus with the Apple, cf. A12. Today at Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California.
20.7.1816	Member of a commission to evaluate the antique works of art purchased for the papal collections with Antonio Canova among others.
3.9.1816	Elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia.
Presumably not later than 1817			Dancing Girl, A778.
Presumably not later than 1817			Shepherd Boy, A755, preparatory work for A177.
Presumably 1817			Henry Thomas Hope?, A266.
Presumably 1817 - 1818			Giovanni Battista Sommariva, A272.
Presumably 1817 - 1818			Giovanni Battista Sommariva, A273.
Presumably 1817 - 1818			Marie Louise Playdeux?, A310.
Begun 1817 - completed 1819			Thomson Henry Bonar, A893.
Begun not earlier than 1817			George Granville Leveson Gower, cf. A259, marble bust, location unknown.
1817			Bacchante, Nysø33.
1817			Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, A44.
1817			The Graces, A30, preparatory model for the statue, A29, on which work then begins.
1817			Edward Divett, A263.
1817			George Granville Leveson Gower, A259.
1817			Harriet Frances Pellew, A309.
1817			Louisa Hope, A264.
1817			Thomas Hope, A298.
Not earlier than 1817			Adrian John Hope, A826.
Not earlier than 1817			Giovanni Battista Sommariva, A741.
Not earlier than 1817			Thomas Hope, A823.
January - June 1817			Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, A45.
14.1.1817			The relief frieze The Life of Christ is commissioned in plaster by Crown Prince Ludwig 1. of Bavaria. The relief frieze, which was later commissioned in marble, is unknown today. The drawings C190, C191r, C191v, C193 and C194 may be drafts of the frieze.
20.1.1817	John Russell asks Thorvaldsen to complete Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector’s Body, cf. A492.
Not earlier than 20.1.1817 - not later than 1.5.1818			Georgiana Elizabeth Russell, cf. A173, is completed in marble. Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England.
23.1.1817			Guillaume Bertrand-Favre commissions a marble version of Ganymede, cf. A43.
Spring 1817			Monument to Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, A619.
Spring 1817			Nicolaus Esterházy, A293.
Spring 1817	Herman Schubart visits Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Spring 1817			Nicolaus Esterházy commissions Dancing Girl, cf. A178 and Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, in marble.
Spring 1817	A group of Thorvaldsen’s friends and colleagues ask Henri Francois Brandt to execute a medal in honour of the sculptor. The medal, F1, shows Thorvaldsen’s portrait and the relief A genio lumen, cf. A518.
7.3.1817			Initial contact regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, A124, A125, A126, and A249.
Presumably 17.3. - 7.6.1817			Henri François Brandt, A241.
22.3.1817	Elected member of the Roman Academy of Archaeology.
29.4. - 20.5.1817			George Gordon Byron, A257.
2.5.1817	The Ponte Molle Society arranges a triumphal procession for Johann Martin von Wagner at a tavern outside Porta Salaria, Rome. Thorvaldsen is probably present.
3.5.1817			Monument to Thomas Maitland is commissioned (bust in plaster, A258, and relief, A600).
Not earlier than 20.5.1817			George Gordon Byron, A717.
25.5.1817		Thorvaldsen postpones his departure for Denmark owing to John Russel’ls commission.
Summer 1817			The Three Marys at the Tomb, relief, probably plaster, destroyed by Thorvaldsen. See D154 and the drawing C191r.
Summer 1817			Clemens Metternich orders Day, cf. A370, and Night, cf. A369.
Middle of June 1817		Departure for Siena and Florence. Accompanied to La Storta by friends, Anna Maria Uhden, and his daughter Elisa.
15.6.1817	Shows Caroline von Humboldt the marble sculptures from the temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, that are being restored in a workshop near Piazza del Popolo and are almost finished.
Completed 5.7.1817			Dancing Girl, A178.
Autumn 1817	Consults Rasmus Emil Bruun and Albrecht Schønberg about his tuberculosis.
6.9.1817	Tsar Alexander 1., who is also King of Congress Poland, approves the placement of a planned equestrian statue of the Polish General Józef Poniatowski in the Saxon Garden (Ogród Saski), which still exists behind the Saxon Castle (Pałac Saski) in central Warsaw.
Completed October 1817			Shepherd Boy, A177.
Not earlier than October 1817			Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, cast in bronze by Jollage & Hopfgarten. The statue was bought by Friedrich Wilhelm 3., present location unknown.
2.11.1817	Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, is inaugurated in the church of Brahetrolleborg, Funen with songs by B.S. Ingemann and a speech by Børge Henrik Knap.
December 1817	Giovanni Battista Sommariva visits Thorvaldsen in his studio.
31.12.1817			Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, A505, is commissioned in marble by Giovanni Battista Sommariva.
31.12.1817	Frances Mackenzie is recommended to Thorvaldsen by Arthur Judd Carrighan.
End of 1817			The Goddess of Hope, A47.
Presumably 1818			Alexander the Great in the Triumphal Chariot, A504, a variation of A503.
Presumably 1818			Anne Newburgh, A889.
Presumably 1818			Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte?, A635.
Presumably 1818			Models bust of Francis Basset, later executed in marble; unidentified.
Presumably 1818 - 1819			Caspar Bartholin, A227.
1818			Christ at Emmaus, A562.
1818			Cristino Rasponi, A297.
1818			Jane Craufurd, A307.
1818			Karl von Seinsheim?, A290.
1818			Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A250, preparatory work for A171.
1818			Wilhelmine Benigna Biron, A720.
1818			Wilhelmine Benigna Biron, A811.
1818			A marble version of Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, is commissioned in Rome by A.F. Madlira. Private collection, today on permanent loan at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A.
Not earlier than 1818			Christ Assigns the Leadership of the Church to Saint Peter, A564.
Not earlier than 1818			Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte?, A726.
1818 - completed 1819			Jane Craufurd, A898.
1818 - 1827			Fragments of the Alexander Frieze, A831 - A850, previously Christiansborg Palace, partly destroyed by fire in 1884.
1818 - January 1819			Christ Assigns the Leadership of the Church to Saint Peter, A565.
Not earlier than January 1818			Thorvaldsen, Sommariva and a Greek Warrior, A738.
February 1818			The Goddess of Hope, A47, is commissioned in marble by Caroline von Humboldt.
Presumably spring 1818			Monument to Anthony James Radcliffe, cf. A622 and A740, is commissioned.
Presumably spring 1818			George Agar Ellis commissions works, including Briseis and Achilleus, cf. A490, Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370) in marble, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.
Spring 1818			Mercury about to Kill Argus, A868, preparatory model for A5.
Spring 1818			George Agar Ellis, A299.
Spring 1818			Ludwig (1.), A233.
Spring 1818	Ludwig sees Adonis, cf. A53, in Rome. Marble statue, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
Spring 1818			The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, cf. A602, is commissioned for the monument to Andrea Appiani.
Spring 1818	Catches a cold and is taken ill with fever on a trip to Tivoli.
Spring 1818			Probably models Veronica Zauli Guarini, plaster bust, location unknown today.
Spring 1818		Attends the flower festival at Genzano with, among others, J.L. Lund and Herman Schubart.
March 1818 - end of September 1818	Herman Schubart stays with Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Not later than 10.3.1818			Begins modelling a portrait bust of Gustav von Ingenheim, but the bust is probably never finished.
11.3.1818	Peder Hjort, Poul Godske von Bertouch-Lehn and Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom arrive in Rome.
21.3.1818			Receives a commission for a marble sculpture of Ferdinand 1.. The sculpture is never completed.
April 1818	Luigi Bienaimé is employed in Thorvaldsen’s studio.
4.4.1818			Christian (8.) Frederik commissions plaster copies of all Thorvaldsen’s works for the study collection of the Academy of Fine Arts.
6.4.1818	Thomas Hope sends Thorvaldsen a reminder for Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
Not later than 22.4.1818			Negotiations concerning the commission for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, are initiated by Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen.
28.4.1818	Thorvaldsen is fêted in Rome by a party of Danes.
29.4.1818	Attends a farewell party for Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria, together with 86 artists, writers, scientists, etc. The party was in Villa Schultheiss outside Porta del Popolo. The hall had been decorated by the Nazarenes and J.L. Lund.
3.5.1818	Hermann Ernst Freund arrives in Rome.
5.5.1818	Visits the Vatican in the evening to see the sculptures in the company of Jørgen Koch and Herman Schubart.
17.5.1818	At an evening party in Palazzo Caffarelli on the occasion of Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen’s son, Heinrich Georg Bunsen’s (1818-?) baptism.
27.5.1818	Jørgen Koch moves into Casa Buti.
Summer 1818 - August 1818	Is ill and recuperates in Albano, nursed by Frances Mackenzie.
June 1818			Models another bust of Caroline von Humboldt, as the first from 1805 was not satisfactory. Location unknown.
5.6.1818	Thorvaldsen er til middag hos Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen i Palazzo Caffarelli på Kapitol i anledning af Bunsens yngste barns dåb, jf. Maurer, op. cit.
Not later than 11.6.1818			Atanazy Raczyński commissions a marble copy of Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A41, finished spring 1821, today in the National Museum Poznań, Polen.
Presumably 12.6.1818 - 14.7.1819			Woman Ascending to Heaven, above the Genius of Death, A625, probably a variation of Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s wife, A624.
12.6.1818	Stanislaus de Chaudoir commissions a monument to his late wife Aloisia de Chaudoir fromThorvaldsen, cf. Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s wife, A624.
Not earlier than 12.6.1818 - not later than 14.7.1819			Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s Wife, A624.
Not later than 13.6.1818			Mercury about to Kill Argus, A5.
Presumably 15.6.1818 - 30.6.1818			Caroline von Humboldt poses twice for Thorvaldsen, who, to her disappointment, only spends two hours each time modelling a new portrait bust of her.
15.6.1818			Frederik 6. commissions Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A503, in marble for Christiansborg Palace.
Not later than July 1818			Ivan Ivanovitj Barjatinskij visits Thorvaldsen’s studio and commissions the marble statue of Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A171.
8.7.1818			A preliminary contract for the equestrian statue Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, A124, A125, A126, and A249, is signed in Rome by Thorvaldsen and Leon Potocki.
Completed not later than 30.7.1818			The marble version of Monument to Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, cf. A619, is finished. Today the work is in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milano.
August 1818		Travels to Naples and visits Procida, Ischia, Capri and Sorrento in the company of Frances Mackenzie, Henriette Herz, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom among others.
4.8.1818			Signs a contract with Ivan Ivanovitj Barjatinskij for the execution of Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A171.
8.8.1818			Thorvaldsen delivers a drawing (unidentified today) of Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, to Vincenz Rüttimann as an initial sketch of the monument.
Not later than 27.8.1818			The version of Goddess of Hope, cf. A47, commissioned by Caroline von Humboldts, is begun in marble. Today at Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
Autumn 1818			Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A172.
Autumn 1818			Thomas Maitland, A258, and Minerva, Truth and Lie, A600.
September - October 1818			At general Laval Nugent and his wife Giovanna Nugent’s place in Napoli, Thorvaldsen studies an arabic horse, which Józef Poniatowski has ridden, and makes sketches for a model of the horse, A125, which is later integrated into the equestrian statue, cf. A123.
Not earlier than September 1818 - not later than 1821			Giovanna Nugent, A239, is commissioned and modelled.
13.9.1818	Elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara.
Beginning of October 1818		Travels from Naples to Rome.
9.10.1818	B.S. Ingemann and Frederik Schmidt arrive in Rome.
10.10.1818	B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt and H.F.J. Estrup visit Thorvaldsen in his workshop in Rome.
11.10.1818	B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt and H.F.J. Estrup visit Thorvaldsen in his home in Casa Buti. Later they go to his workshop as the day before.
Not later than 17.10.1818			Mercury about to Kill Argus, A5, is cast in plaster.
Not later than 17.10.1818			Caroline von Humboldt commissions a plaster cast of Mercury about to Kill Argus, A5.
Completed not later than 25.10.1818			Minerva, Truth and Lie, A600.
End of October 1818	The King of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand 1. visits Thorvaldsen in his workshop.
7.11.1818	Visit from B.S. Ingemann and Frederik Schmidt in his workshop.
9.11.1818	About this date, Franziska Caspers arrives in Rome with Princess Maria Leopoldina Grassalkovich de Gyarak.
Winter 1818 - 1819			François Gabriel de Bray commissions his bust, cf. A300, and the plaster cast A721, together with Night, cf. A369 and Day, cf. A370,
3.12.1818	Visit from Frederik Schmidt. Later that evening at the Caffè Greco, then a musical gathering, and finally at the Caffè Nuovo.
12.12.1818	Visit from Frederik Schmidt. Thorvaldsen complains about the biography that he has to write for the College of Arms.
15.12.1818	The American politician and governor Edward Everett commissions six plaster casts of the bust of Lord Byron, cf. A717.
24.12.1818	Christmas Eve at Thorvaldsen’s with Danes and Norwegians in Rome, among others, B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt, Jørgen Knudtzon, Alexander Baillie, Jens Jacob Keyser, H.F.J. Estrup, J.L. Lund, Hermann Ernst Freund, Catharina Maria Bügel, Peder Hjort. Thorvaldsen prepares the Christmas rice pudding. A song by Ingemann is sung.
25.12.1818	Christmas “service” at Thorvaldsen’s place attended by all the Danes in Rome. Frederik Schmidt delivers the sermon.
26.12.1818	Supper at Jørgen Knudtzon’s with, among others, B.S. Ingemann and H.F.J. Estrup.
29.12.1818	Thorvaldsen adjusts Hermann Ernst Freund’s bust of B.S. Ingemann (modelled 1818, marble 1820 at the New Carlsberg Glyptothek).
31.12.1818	New Year’s eve at Catharina Maria Bügel’s with the other Danes in Rome.
End of 1818			Wilhelmine Benigna Biron, A312.
Presumably 1819			Cupid with his Bow, A36, reworked verison of Georgiana Elizabeth Russell, A173.
Presumably 1819			Cupid with his Bow, A819.
Presumably 1819 - 1825			Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A171.
1819			Cupid with the Lyre, A786.
1819			Fru von Krause A244.
1819			Józef Poniatowski, A249.
1819 - completed 1823			Hebe, A875.
1819 - 1822			Shepherd Boy, cf. A177, marble version, The State Herimitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
1819 - 1825			Christ Assigns the Leadership of the Church to Saint Peter, cf. A565, marble relief, Villa Poggio Imperiale, Florence.
January 1819			Horse, first model, half size, of the horse of the monument to Józef Poniatowskis, A123, probably plaster, location unknown.
2.1.1819	Supper at Jørgen Knudtzon’s with, among others, Jens Jacob Keyser and Frederik Schmidt.
3.1.1819	Evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence. Among those present are B.S. Ingemann, J.L. Lund and Frederik Schmidt.
6.1.1819	Thorvaldsen shows Franziska Caspers and Maria Leopoldina Grassalkovich de Gyarak round the Vatican Museum by torchlight.
7.1.1819	Evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence. Among those present are H.F.J. Estrup and Frederik Schmidt.
8.1.1819	Dinner with Katherine Sophie de Bray in the company of Franziska Caspers, Henriette Herz and one Antonelli (unidentified).
Completed not later than 9.1.1819			Model for the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, preliminary version of A123. The model is not known today, but descriptions indicate that both forelegs of the horse were raised.
14.1.1819	Evening party at the Sciarra restaurant with, among others, Hermann Ernst Freund, C.A. Jensen, and Herman Schubart, whose birthday is celebrated.
20.1.1819	Thorvaldsen is ill and receives a visit from Jørgen Knudtzon, Alexander Baillie, and Frederik Schmidt.
21.1.1819	Thorvaldsen is feeling better and receives a visit from Frederik Schmidt, who brings him two new poems.
28.1.1819	Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated by the Danes in Rome at the Trattoria Armelino around C.A. Jensen’s drawing of the king. Songs by Frederik Schmidt and B.S. Ingemann are sung. Later in the evening, the party continues at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence.
28.1.1819	P.O. Brøndsted arrives in Rome.
28.1.1819	Elected member of Skydeselskabet (The Royal Shooting Society), Copenhagen.
31.1.1819	A visit from B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt, H.F.J. Estrup and P.O. Brøndsted. Herman Schubart’s financial situation is discussed.
1.2.1819	Frederik Schmidt visits Thorvaldsen and his workshop in the company of some Englishmen.
4.2.1819	Attends a merry evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence. B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt, P.O. Brøndsted, N.C. Lunzi, C.A. Jensen and others are present.
5.2.1819	Visits Frederik Schmidt.
11.2.1819	Moonlight excursion to the Colosseum and the church S. Gregorio, probably S. Gregorio Magno al Celio with, among others, P.O. Brøndsted, N.C. Lunzi, Hermann Ernst Freund, C.A. Jensen, Frederik Schmidt and Catharina Maria Bügel. The party continues at the home of the latter.
14.2.1819	Evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence with, among others, Frederik Schmidt and Jørgen Knudtzon.
17.2.1819	Evening party at Catharina Maria Bügel’s Roman residence with, among others, Frederik Schmidt and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
18.2.1819	Visit from Jørgen Knudtzon, Alexander Baillie and Frederik Schmidt.
19.2.1819	J.L. Lund invites all the Danes in Rome to see his collection of drawings after old Italian paintings, collected while travelling in Umbria and Toscana. Thorvaldsen is probably present.
20.2.1819	Evening party at Jørgen Knudtzon’s place with, among others, B.S. Ingemann, Frederik Schmidt and H.F.J. Estrup. Later they went to Catharina Maria Bügel’s house.
21.2.1819	“Service” at Thorvaldsen’s place attended by the Danes in Rome. Frederik Schmidt delivers the sermon.
21.2.1819	Party at P.O. Brøndsted’s place with the Danes in Rome. At midnight to the carnival at the Teatro d’Aliberti. Thorvaldsen provides a Pulcinella doll for Frederik Schmidt.
23.2.1819	Organizes and takes part in a birthday party for Caroline von Humboldt. On this occasion, he presents her with a plaster cast of Cupid with the Lyre, cf. A786. Today at Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
24.2.1819	The day before his departure to Naples, Frederik Schmidt takes leave of Thorvaldsen, who gives him a copy of the medal F2 and some engravings of the Alexander Frieze, Night and Day.
Spring 1819			Jurij Aleksándrovitj Golóvkin, A288.
March 1819	Thorvaldsen has a fever and cannot work.
1.3.1819			Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A503, is commissioned in plaster by Eugène de Beauharnais.
9.3.1819	Attends a party on the occasion of Franziska Caspers’ name day at Louise Seidler’s Roman apartment and places a garland on Caspers’ head.
12.3.1819	Dinner at the house of Torlonia in the company of P.O. Brøndsted, A.C. Gierlew and Peder Hjort.
Not later than 21.3.1819			A marble version of Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, is begun. This is probably inv.no A873, finished 1822.
29.3.1819	At a party in Frascati, the host, Christian Carl Friedrich August toasts the engagement of Thorvaldsen and Frances Mackenzie, much to Thorvaldsen’s dissatisfaction.
Completed April 1819			Completes the original model of Cupid and the Graces, A29.
April 1819			Christian Carl Friedrich August, A204.
April 1819			Friedrich August Emil, A206.
April 1819			The committee, Adam Czartoryski, Stanisław Mokronowski and Alexander Linowski, sign the preliminary contract for the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, A124, A125, A126, and A249 (signed in Rome by Thorvaldsen and Leon Potocki 8.7.1818).
2.4.1819	Attends a birthday dinner for Jacob Brønnum Scavenius at The Ermine in Piazza di Sciarra in the company of Peder Brønnum Scavenius, Jacob Fibiger, P.O. Brøndsted, N.C. Lunzi, Hermann Ernst Freund, Peder Hjort, B.S. Ingemann, C.A. Jensen and Rud Bay.
3.4.1819	Clemens Metternich visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
3.4.1819	An exhibition with German and Nordic artists opens in Palazzo Caffarelli in Rom. Thorvaldsens The Graces and Cupid, cf. A29, was featured in the catalogue, but not exhibited.
12.4.1819	Emperor Francis 1. of Austria visits Thorvaldsen’s studios.
13.4.1819	Peder Brønnum Scavenius visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
21.4.1819 or 24.4.1819	Franziska Caspers and Fyrstinde Grassalkovich leave Rome bound for Naples.
27.4.1819	Peder Brønnum Scavenius visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
27.4.1819	Attends a wild party in La Storta, about 15 km north of Rome, on the occasion of the departure of the duke and the prince of Augustenborg from Rome. The party was arranged by Herman Schubart.
Not later than May 1819			A plaster cast of Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, commissioned by Christian Daniel Rauch, is finished in Rome. Present location unknown.
Begun May 1819			The model of Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), A119, is begun.
2.5.1819	Caroline von Humboldt and her children leave Rome in the rain. At the same time, Henriette Herz and several others leave the city. They are accompanied part of the way by the Buti family and all the artists in Casa Buti, including Thorvaldsen, in five small carriages.
2.5.1819	Frances Mackenzie leaves Rome after Thorvaldsen finally has broken with her.
5.5.1819	Talks to P.O. Brøndsted about his relationship with Frances Mackenzie.
7.5. - 10.5.1819		Participates in a trip to the Alban Hills accompanied by Conrad Rantzau, Cai Verner Ahlefeldt, Frederik Carl Emil von Scholten, Jørgen Conrad de Falsen, J.L. Lund, C.A. Jensen, Hermann Ernst Freund, Peder Brønnum Scavenius og Jacob Fibiger. They visit Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Palazzolo, Rocca di Papa, Monte Cavo, Ariccia, Lake Nemi, Marino, Grottaferrata, Frascati, Tusculum and Monte Porcio Catone.
12.5.1819	Peder Brønnum Scavenius visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
21.5.1819	Franziska Caspers and Fyrstinde Grassalkovich stop briefly in Rome on their return from Naples before they leave Italy for Vienna.
Not later than 25.5.1819			The head of the colossal bust Thomas Maitland, cf. A258, is cast in bronze by Jollage & Hopfgarten for the monument to Maitland. The bust was lost during the Second World War.
27.5.1819	Listens to the poem Helge (written 1814) by Adam Oehlenschläger, read by Brøndsted.
28.5.1819	B.S. Ingemann’s birthday is celebrated at Palazzo Sciarra by Thorvaldsen, Peder Brønnum Scavenius and others.
June 1819			The Annunciation, relief, probably plaster, location unknown, cf. D153.
Beginning of June 1819			Thorvaldsen models the bust of Clemens Metternich, cf. A234.
10.6.1819	Awarded the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown (third class) by Frans 1.
Not later than middle of June 1819		Attends the floral fête “Infiorata” in Genzano with P.O. Brøndsted, Conrad Rantzau, and N.C. Lunzi.
Beginning of July 1819		Spends a few days in the country.
Completed 3.7.1819			Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), A119.
14.7.1819		Begins the journey to Denmark in the company of J.L. Lund and Conrad Rantzau.
14.7.1819		Crosses Ponte Centeno on the border of Tuscany.
14.7.1819		Passes Acquapendente c. 150 kilometers north of Rome.
14.7.1819 - 16.12.1820	Freund and Tenerani take care of Thorvaldsen’s studios in his absence.
15.7.1819		Visits Enrico Mocenni in Siena with, among others, Conrad Rantzau and Jørgen Conrad de Falsen.
16.7.1819		Arrives in Florence.
17.7.1819 - 5.1.1822			Dancing Girl, cf. A178, is being carved in marble in Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
22.7.1819		Leaves Florence.
22.7.1819		Arrives in Bologna. Stays the night at the hotel Pellegrino.
23.7.1819		Arrives at Parma. Stays the night at Albergo del Pavone. Sees Correggio’s fresco The Revelation of John, 1520-23, in the cupola of San Giovanni Evangelista.
Presumably not later than 24.7.1819	Caroline von Humboldt’s plaster casts of Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5, and Cupid with the Lyre, cf. A786, are shipped from Rome. Today at Schloss Tegel, Berlin.
24.7.1819		Passes Piacenza.
25.7.1819		Arrives in Milan. Stays at hotel Reichmann on Corso di Porta Romana.
2.8.1819	A small model of the monumentet Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. the cast of the large model, A119, is sent from Rome, bound for Lucerne.
Not later than 3.8.1819	Thorvaldsen makes the acquaintance of Anselmo Ronchetti in Milan.
3.8.1819		Departure from Milan.
3.8.1819		Visits the town of Saronno to see fresco paintings by Bernardino Luini (c. 1480-c. 1532).
3.8.1819		Arrives in Sesto Calende. Stays overnight.
4.8.1819		Passes Domodossola.
4.8. - 5.8.1819		Arrives at the Simplon pass. Presumably stays the night in the village Simplon.
7.8.1819	The large model of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is sent from Rome, bound for Lucerne.
7.8.1819		Passes the Rhône bridge at Saint-Maurice in Switzerland and probably spends the night at the nearby hotel de l’Union at Bex.
8.8.1819		Arrives in Vevey. Probably stays overnight at the Hôtel des Trois-Couronnes.
10.8.1819		Arrives in Bern. Probably stays overnight at the hotel Krone. Sees the Bern Minster.
11.8.1819		Passes Zofingen in the night.
12.8.1819		Arrives in Lucerne and stays overnight at the inn Der Falke.
12.8.1819	In the company of Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen Thorvaldsen visits the place where the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is to be erected.
13.8.1819		Arrives in Zürich and stays overnight at the inn Schwerdt.
14.8.1819		Arrives at Schaffhausen and spends the night at the inn Krone. Sees the waterfalls of the Rhine.
15.8.1819		Arrives at Tuttlingen, Germany, just north of the Swiss-German border.
15.8.1819		Arrives at Hechingen and spends the night at the unidentified inn The Post. Wascherrin.
16.8.1819		Arrives in Stuttgart via Waldenbuch, where Johann Nepomuk Zwerger gets a lift in Thorvaldsen’s carriage. Lodges at the hotel König von England, just near the Schillerplatz.
Not earlier than 16.8.1819	Visits Johann Heinrich von Dannecker’s studio in Stuttgart.
Presumably 17.8. - 21.8.1819	Attends a party given by Dowager Duchess Louise of Württemberg in Stuttgart, where he praises the collection of paintings owned by Sulpiz Boisserée, Melchior Boisserée and Johann Baptist Bertram.
Presumably 17.8. - 21.8.1819	Studies the brothers Melchior and Sulpiz Boisserée’s and Johann Baptist Bertram’s collection of German and Netherlandish medieval and Renaissance paintings.
19.8.1819			Pankraz Eggenschwyler starts hollowing out the cliff face in Lucerne, where the monument Dying Lion (the Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is to be erected.
21.8.1819	Evening party at the house of Johann Baptist Bertram in the company of Dannecker, Cotta, Rapp and one Dr. Lindner.
21.8.1819		Leaves Stuttgart for Heidelberg late in the evening.
22.8.1819		Arrives in Heidelberg and spends the night there at the hotel Zum König von Portugal.
22.8.1819	Meets Christian Carl Friedrich August on his arrival in Heidelberg. Large party at the inn Zum König von Portugal.
Presumably 24.8.1819		Arrives in Frankfurt via Darmstadt. Lodges at the hotel Zum Weißen Schwan at the Goetheplatz.
Not earlier than 25.8.1819	Visits the Bethmann-Hollweg family in Frankfurt.
28.8.1819	Participates in a celebration of Goethe’s 70^th birthday in Frankfurt a.M. Discusses a possible monument to Goethe with Sulpiz Boisserée.
30.8.1819		Leaves Frankfurt.
30.8.1819		Arrives at Mainz. Lodges at the inn Zum weissen Ross.
Presumably 31.8.1819		Continues his journey to Koblenz. Stays overnight.
Presumably 1.9. - 4.9.1819		Short stay in in Bad Ems. Meets Prince Christian (8.) Frederik for the first time.
Presumably 4.9.1819		Travels via Andernach to Bonn. Spends the night at the Sternhotel.
Presumably 5.9.1819		Arrives in Köln. Lodges at Hotel Kaiserlicher Hof, Breitestraße 36.
Presumably 5.9. - 7.9.1819	Sulpiz Boisserée shows Thorvaldsen the Cologne Cathedral. Meets here unexpectedly Caroline von Humboldt and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker.
Presumably 8.9.1819		Leaves Cologne.
10.9.1819		Passes Osnabrück.
Presumably 13.9.1819		Arrives in Hamburg and lodges at the Hotel St. Petersburg.
Presumably 14.9. - 17.9.1819	Meets for the first time Conrad Hinrich Donner in Altona.
Presumably 18.9.1819		Leaves Hamburg.
Presumably 18.9.1819		Arrives at Breitenburg, Conrad Rantzau’s castle. Rantzau is absent. Probably spends the night here.
19.9.1819		Passes Rendsburg.
20.9.1819		Arrives in Schleswig early in the morning. Sees the Hans Brüggemann altar in the cathedral. Is celebrated at a meal by the lawyer Christian Friedrich Jasper (1786-1847). Schack von Staffeldt proposes a toast. Stays overnight.
21.9.1819		Travels from Schleswig to Flensburg. Meets the widow of Johann Heinrich Wulffen. Stays overnight.
22.9.1819		Departs from Flensburg to the manor Sandjerg visiting Ludvig Detlev Reventlow (1780-1854). Drives on to Sønderborg to stay there overnight.
23.9. - 27.9.1819		Ophold ved hoffet på Augustenborg hos prinsesse og hertuginde Louise Augusta.
27.9.1819		Sails to Bøjden on the island of Funen, sees the altar painting by Eckersberg in Horne Church.
27.9. - 29.9.1819		Visit the Reventlow family at Brahetrolleborg and Arreskov.
Presumably 28.9.1819	Sees his own Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, in the church of Brahetrolleborg and the altar painting by J.L. Lund in Øster Hæsinge church.
29.9.1819		Visits Johan Bülow at Sanderumgaard, his estate near Odense. Continues to Nyborg staying there overnight.
30.9.1819		Crosses the Great Belt from Nyborg to Korsør.
30.9. - 2.10.1819		Visits F.A. Holstein at Holsteinborg Manor in Zealand.
October 1819 - 1821			Clemens Metternich, A234.
Not later than 2.10.1819			Minerva, Truth and Lie, cf. A600, and the lower part of the bust of Thomas Maitland, cf. A258, are cast in bronze by Jollage & Hopfgarten for the monument to Thomas Maitland. The bust was lost during the Second World War, the relief is in the Byzantine Museum of Zakynthos.
3.10.1819		Arrives in Copenhagen for the first time since 30.8.1796.
3.10.1819 - 11.8.1820		Residence and studio at Charlottenborg, 1 Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen.
4.10. - 7.10.1819	Receives daily visits from Peder Horrebow Haste at Charlottenborg.
5.10.1819	Takes up his post as professor of modelling at the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
6.10.1819	Thorvaldsen is congratulated on his return to Denmark by a deputation of students.
9.10.1819	Tilbringer sandsynligvis aftenen i Friederike Bruns hjem i Bredgade, København.
10.10.1819	Celebration at Moltke’s picture gallery (det Moltkeske maleri-galleri) in Bredgade, Copenhagen, with a speech by Niels Henrik Weinwich. Several artists and government officials participate.
11.10.1819	Party at the Royal Shooting Society.
13.10.1819	Borups Selskab (The Dramatic and Literary Society, Borup’s Society) celebrates Thorvaldsen’s return to Denmark. Three songs dedicated to Thorvaldsen are sung.
14.10.1819	Attends Princess Vilhelmine’s admittance to the Royal Shooting Society. Meets Jens Kragh Høst again.
16.10.1819	A sumptuous celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour at The Royal Shooting Range with several hundred participants, speeches, songs, and the firing of cannons.
Begun 19.10.1819 - completed 9.6.1821			Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s wife, cf. A624, is carved in marble.
20.10.1819	Is godfather to Waldemar Henrik Rothe’s son, Frode Rothe (1818-1846), Vartov Church, Copenhagen.
27.10.1819	Attends a celebration in the masonic lodge Friedrich zur gekrönten Hoffnung. A song dedicated to Thorvaldsen is sung.
30.10.1819	Attends a celebration in the society Clio of Queen Marie Sophie Frederikke’s birthday. The poet Jens Baggesen recites a tribute poem.
End of October 1819	The two original models for Dying Lion (The Lucerne LIon), cf. A119, arrive separately at Lucerne. Today the models are in the Historisches Museum Luzern.
8.11.1819	Thorvaldsen’s first meeting with the Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady regarding commissions for the decoration of the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.
12.11.1819	Appointed acting Councillor of State [virkelig etatsråd]. In the evening participates in a Royal banquet given by Frederik 6.
14.11.1819			Christian (8.) Frederik asks Thorvaldsen to model busts of the royal family.
24.11.1819	At the invitation of A.W. Hauch, Thorvaldsen attends the meeting of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, where he receives new commissions, among others a Christ, cf. A82, for Christiansborg Palace Church.
Winter 1819 - 1820			Caroline, A193.
Winter 1819 - 1820			Frederik 6., A191.
Winter 1819 - 1820			Marie Sophie Frederikke, A192.
Winter 1819 - 1820			Vilhelmine, A194.
Winter 1819 - 1820			Frederik (7.), A199.
23.12.1819	Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie arrive in Rome with their retinue.
25.12.1819	Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen’s studio in Rome. Returns to the studios several times during his stay in the city.
27.12.1819			Slotsbygningskommissionen (Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace) commissions Christ, cf. A82, in marble for Christiansborg Palace Church. The statue was later placed in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen instead.