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| Date | Events | Whereabouts | Works |
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| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 9.3.1813 | Thorvaldsen’s daughter Elisa is born probably on the 9th of March, the day after his Roman Birthday. | ||
| End of September 1813 | Travels to Florence at the invitation of Elisa Baciocchi in order to discuss commissions for works of art. | ||
| 28.1.1814 | Awarded the Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies, N24. | ||
| 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, | ||
| 8.1.1819 | Dinner with Katherine Sophie de Bray in the company of Franziska Caspers, Henriette Herz and one Antonelli (unidentified). | ||
| 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. | ||
| 9.10.1819 | Tilbringer sandsynligvis aftenen i Friederike Bruns hjem i Bredgade, København. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 16.8.1820 | Probably arrives at Klintholm invited by H.F.J. Estrup, and stays overnight. | ||
| 9.9.1820 | Attends a lecture by Karl August Böttiger. In the afternoon another visit to the Gemäldegalerie (cf. 7.9.1820 and 8.9.1820), but this time alone. Sees the opera Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra by Gioachino Rossini in the evening accompanied by Louis Philippe de Bombelles. | ||
| 6.4.1821 | Attends a farewell party for Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie before their departure from Rome. | ||
| 9.3.1823 | Probably attends the celebration of his daughter, Elisa Paulsen’s tenth birthday. | ||
| 10.7.1826 | Attends Sigismund von Neukomm’s birthday party in the evening. | ||
| Presumably 25.1.1827 | Invited to buy the Roman Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia in Via della Conciliazione (formerly called Palazzo Castellesi). | ||
| 4.5.1827 | Ludwig 1. visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop. In the evening, invited to Ludwig 1.’s banquet. | ||
| 17.4.1828 | Thorvaldsen probably has dinner with Mary and Benjamin Gaskell. | ||
| 8.1.1830 | Probably attends a musical soirée given by the Manzini family. | ||
| 16.2.1830 | Besøger dronning Therese af Bayern. | ||
| 22.2.1830 | Til middag hos Augusta Amalia von Leuchtenberg. | ||
| 14.6.1830 | Probably visits his daughter Elisa Thorvaldsen in her French convent school in Rome, Maison Royale de S. Denys. Perhaps in the company of Anna Maria Uhden. | ||
| 10.1.1837 | Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum (The Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum) initiates a national collection, i.e. an ‘Invitation to contribute to a museum for Thorvaldsen’. | ||
| 19.11.1838 | Thorvaldsen invites the members of De danske Romeres Selskab (The Society of Danish Romans) to celebrate his birthday. The party is held in Copenhagen. Songs by N.C.L. Abrahams and F.C. Hillerup are sung. | ||
| 3.6.1839 | Christine Stampe arrives in Copenhagen and invites Thorvaldsen to come with her to Nysø. | ||
| 24.7.1839 | Thorvaldsen’s studio in the garden of Nysø – “Wayland’s smithy” – is inaugurated in the presence of Oehlenschläger, Grundtvig, Hans Puggaard and many others. | ||
| 31.8.1839 | From Nysø to Bregentved to celebrate Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie. In the company of, among others, the Stampe family and H.C. Andersen. Invited by Adam Wilhelm Moltke to spend the night there. | ||
| 27.8.1840 | From Copenhagen to Nysø in the company of Christine Stampe. | ||
| 13.6. - 21.6.1841 | Spends a week with Friederike and major Serre at the Maxener Schloss in Maxen near Dresden together with J.C. Dahl and Raden Saleh. | ||
| 7.7.1841 | A deputation from the Stuttgart town government welcomes Thorvaldsen and invites him to attend celebrations in the coming two days. | ||
| 2.9. - 3.9.1841 | Meets the merchant Alfred Hage (1803-1872) and his family in Florence. Invites for dinner. | ||
| 22.2.1842 | Probably attends an evening party hosted by the American consul George Washington Greene. | ||
| May 1842 | Often invited to dinner with Ludwig 1., who also pays frequent visits to his workshops. | ||
| 15.10.1842 | Departure from Kassel by stagecoach, arrival Hannover the next morning. The journey goes through Göttingen, where town officials invite Thorvaldsen to spend a day there, but in vain. | ||
| 4.3.1843 | Probably dines with H.C. Ørsted and his family. | ||
| 7.11.1843 | Er sandsynligvis til stede ved et mindre selskab hos Johanne Luise og J.L. Heiberg i København. |