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1835 - 1846

Thorvaldsen’s “Pre-Museum” at Christiansborg Palace.

Primary sources

  • Kjöbenhavnsposten, Vol. 9, no. 233, 2.10.1835.
  • Royal decree dated 4.10.1835 [an assignment of seven rooms].
  • Letter dated 21.12.1835 from the Academy of Fine Arts to Thorvaldsen [“By His Majesty’s Royal Command to the Building Commission for Christiansbrog Palace dated 4 October this year, the wish of the Academy and of all lovers of art has been most joyfully fulfilled as His Majesty has most graciously ordered that a suite of rooms in Christiansborg Palace will be temporarily used to store the works which you have sent to Denmark”].
  • Letter dated 8.4.1836 from Ludvig Bødtcher to Thorvaldsen [“It is also gratifying that several rooms in Christiansborg Place have been assigned to the same purpose, and where also the paintings and the works of art which you have sent home are to be stored”].
  • Royal decree dated 10.11.1838 [an assignment of five more rooms plus the corridor].
  • Letter dated 25.10.1838 from Thorvaldsen to the Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum.
  • Letter dated 3.11.1838 from the Building Commission for Christiansbrog Palace to the Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum.
  • Letter dated 29.10.1839 from the Building Commission for Christiansbrog Palace to the Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum.
  • Letter dated Spring 1839 from the Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum to Omnes [“a suite of rooms in Christiansborg Palace have graciously been assigned to the temporary storage of these things so that the practioners and lovers of art will have the opportunity to view them in a suitable manner until the completion of the museum building”].
  • Letter dated after December 1839 from the Committee for the Foundation of Thorvaldsen’s Museum to Omnes.

Other references

  • A.D. Jørgensen: ‘Udsigt over Centraladministrationens, Domstolenes og de offentlige Samlingers Bygningshistorie, fra 1660 til Nutiden’, 1883, in: Historiske afhandlinger, vol. 4, Copenhagen 1899, p. 346. See a digital version here.

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