Sulpiz Boisserée commissions a relief frieze for a monument to Goethe. The frieze, however, which was to depict Goethe’s poem Hermann and Dorothea, is never executed.

Primary sources

• Letter dated 18.6.1820 from Sulpiz Boisserée to Thorvaldsen.
• Thiele III, p. 65-66.

Last updated 19.10.2016