Ivan Ivanovitj Barjatinskij visits Thorvaldsen’s studio and commissions the marble statue of Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja, A171.

Primary sources

• Thiele II, p. 411 (Thiele writes that Barjatinskij visited Thorvaldsen in his studio in the spring of 1818, while Bobé op. cit. dates the visit to July 1818).

Other references

• Louis Bobé: Thorvaldsen i Kærlighedens Aldre, Copenhagen 1938, p. 100.
• Else Kai Sass: Thorvaldsens Portrætbuster, Copenhagen 1963-65, Vol. I, p. 462-466.

Last updated 16.06.2014