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Christ Blessing the Children, Nysø23.

Primary sources

  • J.V. Gertner: Drawing after the relief, D362, dated “Nysøe d. 19 November 1839”.
  • Rigmor Stampe (ed.): Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen 1912, p. 18.
  • Albert Repholtz: Thorvaldsen og Nysø, Copenhagen 1911, p. 27 (the clay model was cast in plaster on 16.8.1839).
  • Thiele IV, p. 118 (erroneously dates the relief to the summer of 1840).

Last updated 16.06.2014