Between 4 and 5 in the morning Thorvaldsen’s coffin is moved quietly from the Church of Our Lady to the tomb in the courtyard of the museum.

Primary sources

• Carl Frederik Wilckens: Træk af Thorvaldsens Konstner- og Omgangsliv, samlede til Familielæsning, Copenhagen 1874, p. 121. Wilckens writes that Collin, H.N. Clausen, Troels Lund, Thiele, Bindesbøll and he himself were present at the ceremony.
• Thiele IV, p. 251.

Other references

• Axel Ravn: ‘Thorvaldsens Død og Bisættelse’, in: Meddelelser fra Thorvaldsens Museum, udgivne i Hundredaaret for Thorvaldsens Død, 1944, p. 29.

Last updated 16.06.2014